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Newsletter July 2011

Dear Partners andFriends, June marks the

end of another amazingschool year of Globaloria

and the beginning of newopportunities: We

celebrated the

outstanding winners ofthe largest-ever Globaloria Game DesignCompetitions in West Virginia and Texas (835

participating students); we renewed ourpartnership with AMD and EACPA for a third year;

and we received a new grant from KnightFoundation to bring Globaloria to the State of

California. We presented in two conferences in NYCand Munich and are excited to add more partners,

teachers, and students to our network as we

continue to grow nationwide and worldwide.Cheers, Idit

Your contributionto our 501(c)3will support economically-

disadvantaged andtechnologically-underserved youth

in public school systems in low-income

communities.We cannot grow without yourhelp!

1.New Partnership with Knight Foundationto Bring Globaloria to California2.AMD Renews Partnership for a ThirdYear of Globaloria in Texas

3.Globaloria Competition WinnersAnnounced in West Virginia and Texas

4.Hackathon and Demo Day for GlobaloriaStudents in New York

5.Globaloria Featured at the 8th AnnualGames for Change Festival in NYC

6.Idit Speaks on Education Innovation atDLDwomen Conference in Munich
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1. New Partnership with Knight Foundation to

Bring Globaloria to

California

We are pleased to

announce a newpartnership with Knight

Foundation to empowerthe San Jose and Silicon

Valley communitythrough Globaloria. This

new initiative is designedas a community-wideimplementation in

selected schools,afterschool clubs, and community centers,

involving youth, educators, parents, and

community leaders. "Bringing Globaloria intoSilicon Valley is a unique opportunity todemonstrate how it works to inform, engage andeducate community members from a demographicthat remains challenging for California and the

entire United States," commented Dr. Idit HarelCaperton. Knight Foundation focuses on promoting

informed and engaged communities. "Digitalliteracy is a requisite 21st century skill, and game

design has proved to be a powerful way to acquire

it and to foster greater community engagement,"said Judith Kleinberg, San Jose/Silicon Valley

program director for Knight Foundation.

Read the press release.

2. AMD Renews Partnership for a Third Yearof Globaloria in Texas

We are proud to announce the third year ofpartnership with AMD Foundation to further expandGlobaloria at theEast Austin College Prep Academy

as part of AMDs signature education initiative

Shannon Sullivan, JudithKleinberg (Knight),

Muhammed Chaudhry

(SVEF), and Amy Wong

(SVEF)
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Changing the Game. AMD is pleased to support

Globaloria and to demonstrate the power of game

design to transform learning and teaching within aformal school environment. In the past two years,we have seen Globaloria empower hundreds of

students who never dreamed they could createtheir own digital games while becoming more fluent

in English and skilled in computer programmingand game design, said Allyson Peerman, President

of the AMD Foundation. EACPA is the first charterschool to apply the Globaloria game design and

programming as a daily, fully-integrated, school-wide course which fosters students creative and

computational thinking.

Ward TisdaleDirector of Global

Community

Affairs

Allyson PeermanPresident

Anne FertittaProgram Manager

3. Globaloria Competition Winners Announcedin West Virginia and Texas

On June 7th we announced the 78 finalists and 24

winners of three Globaloria game designcompetitions. This year, 835 students and 433

teams from West Virginia and Texas participated inthree different competitions: the2nd AnnualGlobaloria STEM Game Design Competition; the

2nd Annual Civics & News Literacy Game Design
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Competition; and the2nd Annual Globey Awards.

Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day

OConnor and US Senator Jay Rockefeller wereonce again the Honorary Chairs for the WV Civicsand WV STEM Competitions. Students on the

winning teams won a Game Designer Kit (Laptopand Flash software) to support their computational

creativity for years to come. Read more about thewinning games and award ceremonies in thefull

announcement. Play the topSTEM,Civics & NewsLiteracyandGlobeygames!See photos from the

Globey Ceremony!

Civics Winner

The Adventures

of Henry the

Hedgehog

ByTeam CarrotWizards

Tygarts ValleyHS, RandolphCounty, WV

STEM Winner

Elemental

Elegance

ByTeam

ComaticalCombat

South HarrisonHS, HarrisonCounty, WV

STEM Winner

PaleoQuest

ByTeamFuryunleash22

Spring Valley HS,Wayne County,

WV

7th Grade Globey

WinnerSynchronized

Saviors

ByTeam MMM

6th Grade Globey

WinnerSurvivor

ByTeam

Spongebob's

Crew

6th Grade Mini

Game GlobeyWinner

House Fixers 2

ByTeamAndrea's Rockin

Game
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4. Hackathon and Demo Day for Globaloria

Students in New York

On June 14, Globaloria students at IS364 (a middleschool in Brooklyn, NY) hacked away like

professional programmers on a deadline, and putfinishing touches on their game demos about

health and nutrition. The students also presentedtheir game demos to school administrators and

Globaloria experts. Three teams were recognizedfor their outstanding work;Operation Diet,Feeding

Frenzy, and80 Pounds for Love. The creative

energy in the room was amazing! Students wereworking intensely, helping each other, and having

fun at the same time. Through Globaloria, thesestudents were learning new digital computational

skills and realizing they can take action in staying

healthy, reflected Yasmin Safdie, Globaloriaoperations manager.See photos from the

Hackathon!

In Operation Dietthe player has to dodge fast food

and gain fuel by capturing healthy food choices to

save the earth; In Feeding Frenzythe player jumps

on platforms to get healthy by shopping for healthyfood & exercising; 80 Pounds for Love is a

lighthearted game that pushes one to think aboutweight loss strategies.

5. Globaloria Featured at the 8th AnnualGames for Change Festival in NYC

On June 20th, the Workshop leadership andGlobaloria educators from West Virginia, Texas,

and New York were featured in two Panels and a

Demo Station at the8th Annual Games for Change

Festival. Dr. Idit Harel Caperton presented on the

opening panel entitledUnderstanding the
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Landscape: An Overview of Approaches, Platforms

and Intended Outcomes for Teaching Youth Game

Design at the AMD-sponsored workshop,Inspiring

Digital Kids with Game Design. This full-day

workshop marks a remarkable progression for the

G4C community as it thinks about how to betterengage schools and educators in its mission. We

were thrilled to present Globaloria as the ultimatein-school curriculum and as a Blended Learning

network model for engaging youth in social-issuegame-making around the country today,

commented Idit. Shannon Sullivan, Vice President,Programs and Production moderated another panel

entitledGame Design in the Classroom: A

Globaloria Case Study. It included Denise

Stalnaker, WV State Manager, Marisol Rocha,

EACPA Principal, as well as Teresa Valdez, Nyssa

Arcos Evans, and Otis Robinson, three Globaloriaeducators, who presented how Globaloria istransforming teaching and learning. We

showcased the power of game-making for ignitingthe love of learning among our kids, commented

Marisol Rochas, EACPA principal, We are seeing itevery day in our school, first hand, and we know

that all the educators in the room can benefit fromthis engaging program. Also part of G4C, on June

22nd, Dr. Alex Games (formerly MSU, nowMicrosoft Research) a Globaloria Research Partner,

talked about his research in his session entitledEmpowering Minority Youth to Engage STEM

Learning. In addition, Dr. Rebecca Reynolds

(Rutgers U) shared her Globaloria research onengagement and motivation, and Yasmin Safdie

presented Globaloria student games during theDemo Sessions at the Games for Learning Institute

Seminar at NYU.
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Idit talks about

Globaloria as partof the Digital

Playing Field

Shannon

Sullivan, DeniseStalnaker, Otis

Robinson, Marisol

Rocha, Teresa

Valdez and NyssaArcos Evans

present on GameDesign in the

Classroom

Yasmin Safdie

demos studentgames while

Globaloria

researcher

RebeccaReynolds

presents researchresults

6. Idit Speaks on Education Innovation atDLDwomen Conference in Munich

On June 30, Idit Harel Caperton, President of World

Wide Workshop spoke atDLDwomenat theBavarian National Museum in Munich, Germany.

Since 2006, the DLD conferences feature casestudies and panels by extraordinary international

high-profile speakers and more than 500participants from business, media, technology,

society, health, education, politics and science. This

June Idit was invited to present her vision for usingcutting-edge technology to turn the education

system on its head, democratize science and

software engineering education, and making itexciting for young women.Theres a global urgentneed for providing equal opportunities for excellent

education to all kids boys and girls, rich andpoor. Idit led theEducation Innovation Panel.

Watch thevideoof her session here. SomeDLDwomen speakers (including Idit) were featured

inBunte Magazine.
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DLDwomen Education InnovationPanel moderated by Idit (Photo by

Sascha Baumann/Getty Images

Europe)

Libby Leffler of

Facebook, LauraLiswood ofGoldman Sachs,

and DLD founder

Steffi Czerny

DLD co-founders

Steffi Czerny(right), MarcelReichart (left),

and DLD

chairwoman

MariaFurtwaengler

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