America, meet your future (young) innovators (with video)

Smart Planet 3/30/11: America, meet your future (young) innovators. U.S. chief technical officer Aneesh Chopra on Wednesday announced the winners of the National STEM Video Game Challenge, a competition for primary school-aged kids to develop educational video games for their peers. The point of the competition is to motivate interest in the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering, and math. There were two separate competitions: one for students, and one for experienced developers. Among the 12 winners of the student competition — in grades 5 through 8, selected for their original game designs from a pool of more than 500 entries, was Claypit Hill 5th grader Geoffrey Wang.

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