"Walk into a middle school classroom and ask 'Who wants to be a computer programmer?' and hardly any hands go up," says Caitlin Kelleher, a post-doctoral researcher in Computer Science & Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University. Delivered from the stage in a crowded hotel ballroom, her words sound like the beginning of a joke.
But Kelleher's point is anything but funny. While the number of computer-science grads in India and China is on the rise, the U.S. has seen a 50% drop in CS college majors between 2000 and 2005 (according to a May, 2005, UCLA study), casting doubt over whether the U.S. will continue to be an innovation leader in the global economy.
Kelleher's venue was the Serious Games Summit, held Oct. 30-31 in Washington, D.C. It's an annual gathering of game designers and developers who are joined in researching how their "entertainment" medium can be leveraged as a training tool in areas ranging from the military to health care, education, activism, and the corporate world.
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