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 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.
Committee members will participate in one working lunch on Wednesday, November 14th 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 less than 3 hours total.
If you’re interested in volunteering your expertise for this ad hoc committee, please RSVP to Audrey Warren at audrey@girlstart.org.
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* Project IT Girl is a Girlstart program that teaches 60 high school girls throughout Austin 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 One Laptop Per Child for inclusion on their ultra-low-cost teaching laptop for children in developing nations.
