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August 18, 2006, 04:04 PM ET
Summer School Was Never So Much Fun
Given the popularity of Halo and the Sims, lots of colleges have set up degree programs in video-game design. At the College of St. Scholastica, they are starting them young. This summer, the college convened its first Game Design Camp for preteens—almost all of this year’s attendees are boys. The camp covers all the genres of games—maze games, role-playing games, shooter games, and so on—the way an English course might survey periods of literature, according to the Duluth News Tribune. Thomas Gibbons, a computer information-systems professor who helped start the camp, hopes the kids will learn something about computer programming along the way, likening it to “a nutritious sugared breakfast cereal.”
A trend seems to be under way: Other colleges, such as California State University-Dominguez Hills, have been starting camps for video-game-obsessed kids. —Scott Carlson
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