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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Girlstart is looking for professionals in game development
to volunteer for a one-time ad hoc advisory committee to guide us as we develop
our Project IT Girl* curriculum for the spring semester. Specifically,
Girlstart is looking for folks with project management experience that can help
us apply some of the principles that are used in the for-profit or open source gaming
industry to our non-profit program. We need help defining milestones for
individual game designs, choosing a versioning system, creating test plans, and
training our classroom leaders to manage all this coding. Project management in
our classrooms will be a bit different from traditional software, since girls
are not working in teams on one game but instead supporting each other as they
develop their own game individually.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Committee members will participate in one
working lunch on Wednesday, November 14<sup>th</sup> from 11:30-1pm and then be
available for technical assistance via email or phone over the next few months.
The total time commitment is < 3 hours total.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>If you’re interested in volunteering your expertise
for this ad hoc committee, please RSVP to Audrey Warren at
audrey@girlstart.org. Support is available for calling into the meeting
from a remote location. Please forward to others you think may be
interested!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>~~~~~~~~~~~~~<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>* Project IT Girl (<a href="http://www.girlstart.org/itgirl"
title="blocked::http://www.girlstart.org/itgirl">http://www.girlstart.org/itgirl</a>)
is a Girlstart program that teaches 60 high school girls throughout <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Austin</st1:place></st1:City> how they can
change the world by using Information Technology. This year, Project IT Girls
are learning basic programming concepts through weekly lessons on the Python
programming language. The girls are designing, programming, and marketing their
own educational games, and the top game designs will be submitted to the One
Laptop Per Child Program (<a href="http://laptop.org/"
title="blocked::http://laptop.org/"><font color="#0027ff"
title="blocked::http://laptop.org/"><span title="blocked::http://laptop.org/"><span
title="blocked::http://laptop.org/"><span style='color:#0027FF'>http://laptop.org/</span></span></span></font></a>)
for inclusion on their ultra-low-cost teaching laptop for children in
developing nations.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Georgia'>Clare Richardson<br>
Technology and Program Coordinator<br>
Girlstart<br>
</span></font><a href="http://www.girlstart.org/"><font size=2 face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>www.girlstart.org</span></font></a><font
size=2 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia'><br>
512.916.4775<br>
512.916.4776 fax<br>
<br>
Girlstart's FIRST Community Camp<br>
</span></font><a href="http://www.girlstart.org/communitycamp.asp"><font
size=2 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>Science
Extravaganza</span></font></a><font size=2 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Georgia'> </span></font><font size=2 face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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