Games bring young people closer to computer science/unlp figures. A team of researchers from the Faculty of Informatics of the National University of La Plata developed two educational games, one based on augmented reality, and the other on virtual reality, so that young people learn more about the great figures behind the development of technology.
Read MoreThe Greek mathematician Euclid may very well have proved, circa 300 BCE, that there are infinitely many prime numbers. The aim of the game is to sort as many numbers as possible into "Prime" or "Not prime" in 60 seconds. A prime number is a whole number with precisely two divisors, 1 and itself.
Read MoreThe National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.2 million grant to a team led by Katherine Isbister, professor of computational media at UC Santa Cruz, to develop a summer camp for middle school girls focused on computational technology in a social context involving live action role-playing games.
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