The Seattle Times: Games to keep teenage girls enthralled with math, science
The Seattle Times: June 30, 2013
A group of Seattle-area educators and electronic-game developers have started working on a game to keep teenage girls engaged in math and science.
Consider, for a moment, the possibility of a completely addictive electronic game that had a more noble objective than destroying pigs with slingshot-flung birds or traveling through post-apocalyptic wastelands.
What about a game that was geared toward teen girls — a free game that kept them engrossed in math and science, nudging them toward careers in those fields, at that very time in their lives when they start to lose interest?