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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. Re:as a high-schooler in honors classes ... by chrismcdirty · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Good point. When I was in high school (4 years ago), girls had no problems with shouting out the answer. If a guy did it, he'd be considered a nerd or a suckup, no matter if you're in an honors class (which I was) or not. Every group still has their different amounts of cool quotient.

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