[ACM-W] Games for Girls Programming Competition - $1000 to winning team

[Bettina Bair]

So far I have heard from one student that is interested in being on a G4G
team next spring.  Anyone else?

OSU has had teams in the last two competitions.  You can see their very cool
awards in my office.

:-)
Bettina

---------- Forwarded message ----------

*Win $1000 in Games for Girls Programming Competition*

ChicTech, an outreach program of the University of Illinois' Department of
Computer Science, extends an open invitation for college women to
participate in the third annual Games for Girls Programming Competition
(G4G).  Registration must be submitted by January 31, 2008, at
www.cs.uiuc.edu/g4g. Completed projects are due by April 9, 2008.



We invite teams of up to five college women to design and implement a
computer game for younger girls. The competition is designed to encourage
the development of computer games that appeal to middle- and high-school
aged girls, while fostering the development of communities of college women
majoring in computer-related disciplines. Projects will be evaluated by
approximately thirty high school girls attending the annual ChicTech retreat
weekend on the U of I campus in April.  Their evaluation will be based on
their overall enjoyment of the games.



G4G is part of an effort to attract and retain women in Computer Science.
The creative process of game-building can help female students develop a
stronger sense of belonging to the field of Computer Science and seeing the
work of college women can help high school girls relate to the potential of
CS as a major.  The judging of the G4G games has proven to be one of the
highlights of the ChicTech retreat weekend.



This year's competition* *is sponsored by State Farm. G4G will award each
member of the winning team $1000, with cash prizes also going to the second
and third place teams.  An additional $1000 will go to the winning team's
department to help support programs to attract and retain more women in
Computer Science.



Games must be PC-based.  Teams may use any development tools they wish, but
we encourage them to use the GameMaker platform, which has worked well in
previous G4G competitions.  Please visit our website site for complete
competition details.



*The competition is open to all college women currently residing in the
United States. *Each student team must submit an on-line registration by
January 31, 2008. Visit the web site to complete an application:
www.cs.uiuc.edu/g4g.**







Sonya Harris, Outreach Coordinator
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1314 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science, MC 258
201 North Goodwin Avenue
Urbana, IL. 61801
217.244.4493/Fax: 217.244.6073
http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/outreach/
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/pipermail/acmw/attachments/20071206/67b37785/attachment-0001.html