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Teenage Girls Get Video Game Summer Camp

Posted by simoniker on from the camp-krusty-for-gamegirls dept.

wiredbeat2000 writes "The part of my brain that led me into the Women's Studies department in college is glowing tonight, after reading about a new computer game camp set up for teenage girls. The News-Gazette Online has a story about the camps, which are called the UI Girls' Adventures in Mathematics, Engineering and Science (G.A.M.E.S.) Camp. The story comes on the heels of today's announcement by Entertainment Software Association that game demographics are skewed differently than you'd expect."

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  1. What in the!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nowhere on Earth could you find MORE of my favorite things all in one place!

    1. Re:What in the!? by EllF · · Score: 4, Funny

      Pre-teen girls between the 6th and 8th grades count among your favorite things?

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  2. Re:Great job reading the description.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ok, who else mistook this for a hot-chicks-playing-videogames story?

  3. Fess Up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Who clicked all the related links trying to find pictures of the teenage girls.

  4. Dude... by Asprin · · Score: 4, Funny


    The part of my brain that led me into the Women's Studies department in college is glowing tonight, after reading about a new computer game camp set up for teenage girls.

    Dude.

    There are easier ways to meet chicks.


    (Sorry.... couldn't resist!)

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  5. and this one time, at game camp... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    and this one time, at game camp, I stuck a joystick...

  6. Anyone else thinking... by M.C.+Hampster · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... that this just screams "horror flick"?

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  7. Momentarily confused by Green+Light · · Score: 5, Funny

    Teenage Girls Get Video Game Summer Camp

    Everytime I see that headline, I wonder why my spam filter didn't catch it...

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  8. ummmm by qek · · Score: 3, Funny

    I work at UI, and I helped out with the campers. You guys do realize they're all about 12-13 years old, right?