A-HA video contest links games, learning
AMD and Learning Games Network have announced the winners to their A-HA moment video contest, a competition for students to demonstrate how video game play can result in serious learning.
The contest has two categories–one to create a video explaining how playing video games reinforced something they had learned elsewhere and the other “dream assignment” to describe a game that could be “required playing” for a class at school.
Winning entries ranged from a middle school student connecting her experience with Activision’s Guitar Hero with her growing ambition to learn how to read music and play the guitar, to a high school student discussing how games have enabled him to develop World of Warcraft game-like strategies to tackle class assignments.
Winning entries can be found here.
The competition is part of AMD Changing the Game, an initiative designed to take gaming beyond entertainment and inspire youth to learn critical education and life skills by equipping them to create digital games with social content.
Do you need a Tech Makeover?
Are you still in the tech dark ages? Have you made the leap to new media? A new contest may be just what you need to get a serious upgrade.
Savvy Source is hosting a $5,000 contest from Intel to help one winner update their tech life along with advice from experts to help them use it. Readers of the Being Savvy blog can send in their stories or those of someone they love to nominate him or her for a makeover and training.
The deadline is September 8 so check it out now.
Mother of Invention
Are you a mompreneur? Do you have a really great idea, but just need some help getting it off the ground?
Whirlpool has the contest for you! It’s Whirlpool Brand Mother of Invention grant awards $20,000 for new and innovative ideas designed by moms. This year, they are also offering a “green” category for products/ideas that mimimize impact on environmental resources and/or use recycled or natural materials.
Winners also receive a choice of Whirlpool appliances and a two-day “boot camp” at its corporate headquarters to further develop the idea. The entry form is available online and must be submitted by July 31, 2008.
If you have ever had a “million-dollar idea,” this may be your chance to make it happen.
Good luck!
