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<div class="gmail_quote">Neat project.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">:-)</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">Bettina</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><br>Announcing the Project IT Girl Games!<br><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Project_IT_Girl" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Project_IT_Girl</a><br><br>Project IT Girl is a Girlstart after-school program in Austin, Texas,<br>
funded by the National Science Foundation. The program consists of 44<br>high school girls (16 - 17 years old) who are learning how to use<br>technology to make a difference in the world over a three-year period.<br>During the 2007 - 2008 school year, students piloted Girlstart's<br>
"Python with a Purpose" curriculum. The IT Girls were given a<br>real-world project: develop an educational game using Python and<br>Pygame that can be distributed to children around the world via the<br>One Laptop per Child program. Each girl picked a learning objective<br>
for her game that most interested her, from "practice fractions" to<br>"spread awareness of AIDS testing."<br><br>Out of 35 total games developed by the girls, 17 games were deemed "XO<br>eligible", meaning they use only images and sounds in the public<br>
domain or under the Creative Commons license.<br><br>To *download the games* and to learn more about Project IT Girl, see<br>our page on the OLPC wiki: <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Project_IT_Girl" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Project_IT_Girl</a><br>
<br>NOTE:<br>These games have NOT been tested on an XO laptop. There are many known<br>issues in the games, including high CPU usage. If you are interested<br>in testing the games and/or helping to bring the games up to XO<br>
standards, please email Zakiyyah Kareem at <a href="mailto:zakiyyah@girlstart.org" target="_blank">zakiyyah@girlstart.org</a>.<br><br>Clare Richardson<br>Technology and Program Coordinator<br>Girlstart<br><a href="http://www.girlstart.org/" target="_blank">www.girlstart.org</a></div>
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