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Teenage Girls Get Video Game Summer Camp
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."
Nowhere on Earth could you find MORE of my favorite things all in one place!
How is this at all related to Video Games?
From the site:
"Campers will spend the week of camp working on a team project, learning about various enginering, math, and science disciplines, participating in cool hands-on demonstrations, and meeting lots of other young women who share their interest in math and science. Check out the Highlights to learn more about the structures camp and about the computer science camp."
CompSci != Games.
It's just a clever acronym, but if you read the first page of the link(or even the freaking summary) you'll see it has nothing to do with video games.
(Incase they try to silently edit it, the title was originaly "Teenage Girls Get Video Game Summer Camp")
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The 30 eighth- and ninth-grade girls at the camp, some from as far away as New York, used the skills they accumulated to design video games, which they presented on Friday in a game fair held at the camp's culmination.
"They're learning actual programming and applying it to a really fun area," said Aimee Rickman, director of the camp. "It's the only camp of its kind in the nation."
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.
It's like sex, except I'm having it!
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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- Doug McKenzie
and this one time, at game camp, I stuck a joystick...
... that this just screams "horror flick"?
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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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I work at UI, and I helped out with the campers. You guys do realize they're all about 12-13 years old, right?