Teenage Girls Get Video Game Summer Camp

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."

What in the!?

[Anonymous Coward]

Nowhere on Earth could you find MORE of my favorite things all in one place!

Re:What in the!?

[EllF]

Pre-teen girls between the 6th and 8th grades count among your favorite things?

Great job reading the description..

[irc.goatse.cx troll]

How is this at all related to Video Games?
From the site:
"Campers will spend the week of camp working on a team project, learning about various enginering, math, and science disciplines, participating in cool hands-on demonstrations, and meeting lots of other young women who share their interest in math and science. Check out the Highlights to learn more about the structures camp and about the computer science camp."
CompSci != Games.

It's just a clever acronym, but if you read the first page of the link(or e

RTFA

[Anonymous Coward]

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."

Re:Great job reading the description..

[chrismcdirty]

Not to mention that it's not for teenage girls. In the "about" page, it says it's for preteen girls from 6th to 8th grade. I'd suppose you can include maybe 13 and 14 year olds in there.. but the description clearly says 'preteen.'

Re:Great job reading the description..

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Great job reading the description..

[Daetrin]

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

...and then found out they were hot-programmer-chicks-making-videogames and thought, "even better!"

Too bad i'm not ten years younger. So few female geeks my age, so many jailbait ones.

And i was just young enough to miss out on the internet boom as well, my timing sucks.

Re:Great job reading the description..

[simoniker]

From the article linked [news-gazette.com] in the story:

"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."

And who's modding up someone called 'irc.goatse.cx troll'? Honestly, who throws a shoe?

Re:I wonder...

[irc.goatse.cx troll]

A few. And how is it lame? Slashdot forces you to use http:// for homepages making anything else have to be misleading.

Re:Great job reading the description..

[irc.goatse.cx troll]

"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."

The title is still misleading, the camp may of had a small game fair, but its more about coding games than playing them.

"And who's modding up someone called 'irc.goatse.cx troll'? Honestly, who throws a shoe?"
Enough that I can post this with a karma bonus and not really worry that I'll get

Re:as a high-schooler in honors classes ...

[chrismcdirty]

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.

Re:as a high-schooler in honors classes ...

[spitzig]

Referring to your "fight fire with fire" doesn't apply to non-metaphoric fires--yes it does. Fire fighters burn sections of forest to kill a major forest fire all the time. Controlled burns are standard procedure to prevent major forest fires, too.

Dude...

[Asprin]

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!)

Re:Dude...

[AvantLegion]

>> There are easier ways to meet chicks.

Not to mention less hostile ones.

and this one time, at game camp...

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Anyone else thinking...

[M.C. Hampster]

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

Momentarily confused

[Green Light]

Teenage Girls Get Video Game Summer Camp

Everytime I see that headline, I wonder why my spam filter didn't catch it...

video game girls gone wild

[UltimaL337Star]

Anyone know if snoop dog plays games? maybe they show on cribs..

ummmm

[qek]

I work at UI, and I helped out with the campers. You guys do realize they're all about 12-13 years old, right?

Re:ummmm

[kevinvee]

They didn't tell you until it was too late to quit, did they?

What the hell does "UI" stand for?

[Snaller]

User Interface?