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EP 55: Games Over Gangs (Encore)

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Here's an encore of a favorite: Games Over Gangs.

Those dang video games. Can't pull the kids away from them. And there's one city using that to its advantage -- with an innovative partnership that's actually teaching video game development to local youths from a rough neighborhood (yes, they jumped at the offer to become game developers), affording them a break from an anxious environment and setting them up with a sweet professional skill that can open big doors: computer coding, which has tons of (well-paying) applications. On this episode, we meet the program's creators and some impressive kids who are boosting prospects and expressing real-life (and often tough) experiences through the games they create. With, on the host's part, some reminiscing about old-school Sierra games.

Show notes

Games Over Gangs info and donation site - https://www.gofundme.com/antigang-gaming-programing

NCSU Game2Learn Lab - http://eliza.csc.ncsu.edu/people.html Technician

(NCSU student newspaper) story - http://www.technicianonline.com/news/article_e926670c-5c50-11e7-82c9-dfe6870c4bb5.html

Space Quest III - https://youtu.be/yTZzFN8ilG0

Pulseboy (used to compose some of the oldschool video game music heard in this episode) http://www.pulseboy.com

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Here's an encore of a favorite: Games Over Gangs.

Those dang video games. Can't pull the kids away from them. And there's one city using that to its advantage -- with an innovative partnership that's actually teaching video game development to local youths from a rough neighborhood (yes, they jumped at the offer to become game developers), affording them a break from an anxious environment and setting them up with a sweet professional skill that can open big doors: computer coding, which has tons of (well-paying) applications. On this episode, we meet the program's creators and some impressive kids who are boosting prospects and expressing real-life (and often tough) experiences through the games they create. With, on the host's part, some reminiscing about old-school Sierra games.

Show notes

Games Over Gangs info and donation site - https://www.gofundme.com/antigang-gaming-programing

NCSU Game2Learn Lab - http://eliza.csc.ncsu.edu/people.html Technician

(NCSU student newspaper) story - http://www.technicianonline.com/news/article_e926670c-5c50-11e7-82c9-dfe6870c4bb5.html

Space Quest III - https://youtu.be/yTZzFN8ilG0

Pulseboy (used to compose some of the oldschool video game music heard in this episode) http://www.pulseboy.com

  continue reading

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