IN THE NEWS:
Games for Change
November 23, 2009
Games for Change is working with the White House STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) initiative, which was recently announced by President Obama. In collaboration with partners such as E Line Media and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, Games for Change is part of a major public-private partnership to launch a series of national game competitions to spur and promote new games for STEM learning. The finalists of these contests will be shown at this year's Annual Games for Change Festival on May 25, 2010. The President's announcement highlighted a STEM competition involving a joint MacAthur Foundation and Sony initiative, featuring Little Big Planet as the development platform.

MacArthur Foundation Announces $2 Million Competition
November 23, 2009
As President Obama called for new efforts to re-imagine and improve education in science and math, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced a $2 million open competition for ideas to transform learning using digital media. The competition seeks designers, inventors, entrepreneurs, researchers, and others to build digital media experiences – the learning labs of the 21st Century – that help young people interact, share, build, tinker, and explore in new and innovative ways. Supported by a grant to the University of California at Irvine, the competition was planned and announced in partnership with National Lab Day, a movement to revitalize science, technology, engineering and math in schools.