Girls invade the Get in Line team!

On March 2nd, 29 girls invaded the Get in Line team project room for Girl Tech Night at the ETC - but in a good way!

According to their website, Creative Technology Nights for Girls focuses on exposing middle school girls to various creative technologies with the hopes of engaging the next generation of women in technology. We had 22 girls plus 7 from the Western PA School for the Deaf, 3 translator/teachers, 5 Tech Night volunteers, plus Carol and Mary - program facilitators.

Our guests played the Get in Line games, mostly with their own phones, and had a great time! One team even demanded a rematch on one of the games!

The girls from the School for the Deaf were also able to play because our games (luckily) had sufficient explanations built into the gameplay, so they did not need our sound queues. (Adding this to the checklist of playtesting to make games even MORE accessible to all…)

The ETC received a lovely letter from Mary, the facilitator of Girl Tech Night!

excerpt:
“The girls really enjoyed the “Get in Line” games–a big thank you to Tracy, Carlos, Chris and Andrew for hosting them to play.”

Well - we enjoyed having them here too! Nothing beats watching people have fun playing something that you have built! Check their site out at http://women.cs.cmu.edu/technights/.