Longwood University, Virginia State University and the Southern Virginia Higher Education Center have linked up in order to offer area ninth-grade students a chance to learn more about developing interactive games.

What’s unique about this program is that participants will spend a good deal of time learning how controllers and other gaming input devices work, in addition to gaining knowledge on the programming needed to create games. The program, named [URL=http://65.254.181.145/Digisp/index.htm]Digispired ii[/URL], is funded by a $1.0 million grant from the National Science Foundation, according to [URL=http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/education/article/B4-DIGI18_20100417-215402/338127/]the Richmond Times-Dispatch[/URL].

The program last three-years and will accept 20 new students this year, each of whom will receive a $400 stipend. Digispired ii consists of a two-week course this summer, followed by an additional ten Saturday meetings along the course of the school year.
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