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Middle School Students Win Future Game Designer Challenge
Students in Gloria Wood's video game programming class on the Middle School Bartram Campus submitted eight educational video games to the 2008 Future Game Designer Challenge, an international competition. Of the games submitted, two teams took first place in their respective divisions and each of the winners will receive an iPod as a prize.
In the Middle School Challenge division, Gray Houston '13, Philip Kenney '13, and Cole Hanna '13 earned first place with a game titled Interstellar England. The Middle School Challenge involved each team creating an edutainment game for either fourth or fifth grade, engaging students in math, language, or science. The challenge also required the game to have a storyline and for game-play to support the theme of the game.
Robbie Bridgewater '12, Jake Mendelson '12, and Cameron McLauchlan '12 created Dance Dance Revolution Recycling Game to earn first place in the Health Games Challenge division. The Health Games Challenge required the development of a physically active video game that is challenging, engaging and promotes a health message. The teams were to incorporate a dance pad as the main player controller for the action with the game keeping the player active for at least 10 minutes. A second level, increasing the player's activity, was also required. The target group for the game was to be one of three age ranges: fifth-sixth grade, seventh-eighth grade, or ninth-tenth grade.