Scalable Game Design wiki

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Mission: Reinventing computer science in public schools by motivating & educating all students including women and underrepresented communities to learn about computer science through game design starting at the middle school level. More...

Results: The project aimed at instructing 1200 students in 3 years but already instructed over 1300 students in the first semester; 52.3% of the students were girls, 78% of the girls want to continue! more...

News:

• Jan 13, Repenning presents Scalable Game Design at the Technology Leadership Forum in Colorado Springs.
• Jan 1, 2012, The "Type II: CT4TC - Computational Thinking for Teaching Computing: Validating a Theory of Broadening Participation", NSF CE21 project officially begins.
• Nov. 6: The Brazilian Scalable Game Design wiki is officially launched.
• Sept. 28: Repenning to give Keynote at the Latin American Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (IHC & CLIHC 2011) in Brazil.
• June 28: Scalable Game Design Brasil Project ("Clique para a Computação") was officially launched at the Universidade Federal Fluminense: (photos, News Article (Google translated)
• June 23: Scalable Game Design at the TIE Conference with Alex and Mark
• June 12: Channel 9NEWS, "Colorado's News Leader" features a report of the Summer Institute
• June 6: Front-page press coverage for the 2011 Summer Institute by the Boulder Daily Camera
• Other project news
• Follow Scalable Game Design on Facebook

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This work is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Numbers DLR-0833612 and IIP-0848962. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.