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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. RTFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    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."

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

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

  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. and this one time, at game camp... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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

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

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  8. 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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  9. 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?