Leading North American female game designers and scholars will come together with young women gamers on Aug. 12-15 at Columbia College Chicago to look at the female voice in the digital gaming industry.
The 3G Summit: The Future of Girls, Gaming, and Gender is an unprecedented four-day initiative to engage 50 'girl gamers' from Chicago-area high schools in a series of discussions and workshops designed to foster professional mentorship and ignite exchange about their place in the gaming culture.
Promotion materials for the summit say it's a rare opportunity to learn what young women want from electronic and online games, and according to organizers, is specifically designed to help change the conversation in education and in the world of technology as it provides insight into gender equity and gaming. It also looks at how digital games delivered over mobile phones and social networking sites can be used for social awareness, civic engagement, and cultural expression.
Students will develop concepts for their own games over the course of the weekend under the mentorship of the five professional female game designers as the final deliverable for the summit. Senior Columbia College Interactive Arts and Media students will develop the concepts into games as a fall semester project.
Following this inaugural year of the summit, the presenters plan to extend the program through afterschool components and continued engagement between the girls and their mentors, including the summit's blog site.
Source: Columbia College Chicago
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