“Kids and vets participate in Wheelchair Games” plus 2 more |
- Kids and vets participate in Wheelchair Games
- CLU camp teaches kids to create video games
- Drinking games go legit
| Kids and vets participate in Wheelchair Games Posted: 08 Jul 2010 04:07 PM PDT  DENVER - Kids with disabilities got a chance to see just what kind of athletes they can be during Kids Day at the National Veterans Wheelchair Games which took place in Denver this week. The kids got to compete in basketball, t-ball, and a slalom course. "It's an opportunity for some of the disabled children in our community to come out and interact with some of these adult athletes who are champions in their wheelchair sports, a chance to show these kids there are opportunities out there," said Jordan Schupbach with the US Department of Veterans Affairs. The kids received medals, and really enjoyed meeting each other and the older athletes. "I think it was really inspiring," said 11-year-old Abby Farrell who lives with spina bifida. "I learned to never give up," she said. Copyright © 2010, KDVR-TV  Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| CLU camp teaches kids to create video games Posted: 08 Jul 2010 08:44 PM PDT Imagine a small, yellow creature with a horn on the crown of its head for a mouth, chomping away on a variety of spinning fruit. Its sole purpose is to eat all the produce that surrounds it in order to proceed to the next level. That's the concept behind a video game that Abigail Cohen, 7, of Woodland Hills developed at iD Tech Camp at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks. "I created him when you pass it, it says, 'You won, partner,' " she said. Abigail is one of many digital kids across the country participating in the 12th annual camp season hosted by iD Tech Camp. The camp offers six summer programs at universities, giving kids from 7 to 17 hands-on opportunities to explore computer software. It's the same software professionals use to produce all types of tech projects. CLU has hosted the program for nine years. The school offers six camp sessions, each a week long. Participants have the opportunity to create 2-D and 3-D video games, create Flash animation, build robots, develop graphics portfolios and create virtual worlds. Avery Scanlon was new to the concept of video game designs when he first attended the camp two years ago. The 12-year-old from Thousand Oaks said he now knows a bit more beyond the basics of computer navigation. "It's a really good camp; it shows you what you need to know in order to achieve what you want," Avery said. "Computers can open up a whole new world of imagination." The program sets up a friendly and welcoming environment for kids. "The teachers are very helpful, you don't get teased here, and if you like computers this is the perfect place to come," said Matzke Mason, 15, of Ojai, who was working on a virtual map for a first-person shooter game. Kenn Gorman, program director, said a number of kids who attend the camp have been involved with it for several years. Even the counselors are former iD Tech campers. Peter Sylvester, 20, a computer science major at CSU Channel Islands, was a camper for five years and is now an instructor. "You want to make games with them," he said, "but it's rewarding when you see kids make games on their own." Gorman said the program stresses giving kids the liberty to figure out how to manage the software so that they can be proud of the finished product. "Once they say they can do this, we just kind of let them go," he said. Aside from the technical curriculum, the kids also take time from the day to play games outside. "I like that we're not on the computer all the time," said Julia Cohen, 13, of Woodland Hills. She was working on Flash animation. At the end of every session, the kids are able to go home with a finished product. All the projects created during the iD Tech Camp can be seen and interacted with at http://basement.internaldrive.com. Space is available in the three remaining sessions at CLU. For more information, go to http://www.internaldrive.com or call 888-709-TECH (8324). Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Posted: 08 Jul 2010 05:29 PM PDT Ryan Smith remembers when drinking and hand-eye coordination didn't mix. Vaguely. But Smith says the line between alcohol and athletics has blurred since the days when pinball machines and dart boards were cool. These days, the refreshments and the game are one and the same. Drinking games with names such as beer pong and flip cup -- and others whose names are unprintable for a newspaper -- have become ubiquitous, never more so than during holidays. They have gained legitimacy in bars, cash tournaments and family parties. "It comes from the drinking games," said Smith, director of marketing at Cherry Hill's Top Dog, of the bar's biweekly beer-pong tournaments. "It was a side game for us and has grown into a tournament." Lucky to have drawn a dozen people as recently as January, Top Dog now averages about 125 every Tuesday and Friday, some of whom come from two hours away to play for the $250 jackpot. "These kids are so skilled," he said. But drinking games are no longer child's play. More and more families have welcomed drinking games into their households, with players of both genders participating and multiple generations placing games like beer pong and flip cup at the head of the table. Smith sees such equal opportunity at Top Dog. "The girls are getting involved just as much as the guys," said Smith, adding the cups are filled with water, not beer, to discourage binge drinking. "When the games are out there, everybody is playing, the full range of ages." Competitive drinking There's a science to the drinking. In a June study, researchers at the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies in New Brunswick explored the drinking patterns of rodents and found males and females each drink more alcohol in the presence of the opposite sex. The same is true with women; they tend to booze more in the company of men, said Arthur Tomie, researcher and psychology professor at Rutgers. Males, on the other hand, are prone to drink most heavily with the same sex, a phenomenon known as the fraternity effect. Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
Digg
Twitter
Facebook
StumbleUpon
| You are subscribed to email updates from Yahoo! News Search Results for kids games To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 | |
0 comments:
Post a Comment