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Changing the Game

Gaming isn’t just about entertainment anymore. Developers — including high school students — are now creating games designed both to educate and engage people of all ages on pressing social issues.

Global concerns such as poverty, hunger, climate change, and the genocide crisis in Darfur have already been addressed in games that help players understand the complexities involved and explore creative solutions.

As a direct extension of our mission to constantly innovate and provide The Ultimate Visual Experience™, AMD is proud to help advance this movement of evolving digital games into powerful tools for improving our world.

AMD Changing the Game, an initiative of the AMD Foundation, is designed to help youth at the middle and high school level harness the power of digital games with social content, while learning critical education and life skills. Through the process of developing and playing their own issue-themed games. AMD Changing the Game participants will develop essential skills in science, technology, engineering, and math, also known as STEM skills.

At the same time, students will explore critical thinking, problems solving, project leadership, and contemporary themes of social responsibility. Attention to these critical developmental areas will in turn help participants expand their future educational and professional opportunities as citizens of the 21st Century.

AMD Changing the Game will support the following non-profit partner organizations that serve our mission:

• Girlstart (Austin, TX)
• Global Kids (New York, NY)
• Institute for Urban Game Design (Washington DC)
• 5th Annual Games for Change Festival (New York, NY)

Learn more about our AMD Changing the Game Partner Organizations

In addition, AMD Changing the Game, partnering with the Todd Wagner Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Games for Change, and the Boys and Girls Club of America (BGCA), plans to pilot a game-development curriculum for youth in fall 2008 at BGCA chapters in the following five cities: Atlanta, GA; Austin, TX; Chicago, IL; Newark, NJ; and Santa Monica, CA.

To stay on top of what’s new with AMD Changing the Game, send your contact information to: community.affairs@amd.com