[ACM-W] Announcing the Project IT Girl Games!

[Bettina Bair]

Neat project.

:-)
Bettina

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Announcing the Project IT Girl Games!
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Project_IT_Girl

Project IT Girl is a Girlstart after-school program in Austin, Texas,
funded by the National Science Foundation. The program consists of 44
high school girls (16 - 17 years old) who are learning how to use
technology to make a difference in the world over a three-year period.
During the 2007 - 2008 school year, students piloted Girlstart's
"Python with a Purpose" curriculum. The IT Girls were given a
real-world project: develop an educational game using Python and
Pygame that can be distributed to children around the world via the
One Laptop per Child program.  Each girl picked a learning objective
for her game that most interested her, from "practice fractions" to
"spread awareness of AIDS testing."

Out of 35 total games developed by the girls, 17 games were deemed "XO
eligible", meaning they use only images and sounds in the public
domain or under the Creative Commons license.

To *download the games* and to learn more about Project IT Girl, see
our page on the OLPC wiki: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Project_IT_Girl

NOTE:
These games have NOT been tested on an XO laptop. There are many known
issues in the games, including high CPU usage.  If you are interested
in testing the games and/or helping to bring the games up to XO
standards, please email Zakiyyah Kareem at zakiyyah at girlstart.org.

Clare Richardson
Technology and Program Coordinator
Girlstart
www.girlstart.org
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