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"MakeGamesWithUs is a new iOS game publishing company with a twist: its focus is on helping high school and college students to build games. MakeGamesWithUs us will take the kids' creations, provide professional graphics and art and publish them in the App Store."

"The combined hardships of economic downturn and a target audience that is increasingly defined by their affinity for active participation in their surroundings have left many nonprofit museums struggling to remain relevant in the 21st Century. We have partnered with Discovery Place, a hands-on science museum in Charlotte, North Carolina in order to create an easy-to-integrate software solution to help them better engage their audience. Our project is the creation of a three-part digital layer to increase museum engagement for all visitors, but particularly those considered digital natives. We have created two systems to be implemented in the museum, one to appeal to traditional visitors and one to better engage large groups of students. In the future, these two systems will be tied to an online meta-game to complete our digital layer by bringing the enhanced museum experience home for visitors."

In the next twelve months more schools will be setting homework assignments for their students to play computer games. This will be because schools, expecting more of their students, will be looking for ways to support them to develop a deep level of understanding in, say, science, maths, or in being effective creators and consumers of the digital world (how to code, mash-up websites, design apps and so on).

Using a video game to orient incoming students to college offices and services and improve the game as a result of participant feedback.

"3D GameLab is a quest-based learning platform for teachers and students of all ages "

Designing a sport kids may want to play employing game design principles

Monica M. McGill's blog, assitant professor at Bradely University, one of her areas of study is game design curricula in US, UK and Canada. "Creating proposals in production courses, particularly games courses, is important in order to teach students to think about what they want to do for their project and why they want to do it."

Scheduled for MIT Stratton Student Center 84 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA 02139 Saturday, September 14, 2013 from 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM (EDT) Contributions accepted via Kickstarter

Projects at University of Utah

International trade association welcoming "developers, artists, programmers, publishers, project leads, administrators, faculty, human resource personnel, middleware and tool companies, service providers, vendors, researchers, analysts, marketing, advertising and public relations personnel, consultants and students."

"(Science and Technology Enrichment for Appalachian Middle-schoolers", student game developers' experiences

A defunct game releases its code into the public domain. What opportunities does this present for developers and students?

From Iowa State University students, Metalblast : "The game takes place in the year 2052. Plants are dying, and there is a developing ecological crisis. At the same time, an expert team of plant scientists has disappeared. The player, represented by a novice undergraduate student in the research lab, must shrink to microscopic size, enter the plant cell, rescue the lost scientists, discover what is killing the plants, and save the world - all in the game's virtual, 3-D environment. Along the way, players must solve problems and answer questions about the cell and metabolic biology. "

Silicon Valley's 'Best Kept Secret' Prepares Digital Art Students to Enter In-Demand Animation, Gaming, Audio and Engineering Career Fields SUNNYVALE, CA - February 21, 2010 - Cogswell College, one of the world's leading regionally-accredited institutions offering a unique curriculum that fuses digital arts, engineering and entrepreneurship, is holding an Open House on March 10, 2012 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM at its Sunnyvale campus. (Had not heard expression "black collar" before)

Description of a Scratch game development curriculum implemented by WPI students at the Worcester Public Library

Train2Game students collaborating with Epic Games

Reports on student projects and feedback, p. 170 of this document (complete journal issue)

"Valve wants to help. The 17-year-old Bellevue company just launched Pipeline, an experimental project aimed to educate high schoolers about the ins and outs of the video game industry."

From the abstract: "In this paper, I present and compare a number of cross-platform compilers. While the overview alone indicates which cross-compiler may be appropriate for the needs of a given project, the study in this paper reaches beyond that. I also present tools to support the development process and using them I create a working title. It leads to a series of tests measuring the quality of experience and showing that even very simple methods may have impact on the end-user."