The 3G Summit: The Future of Girls, Gaming, and Gender is an unprecedented four-day initiative that will engage 50 young women from Chicago-area high schools in a series of discussions and workshops designed to foster professional mentorship and ignite lively exchange about young women’s place in the gaming culture.  The event, a multi-year initiative co-presented by Open Youth Networks and Columbia College’s Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, is specifically designed to help change the conversation in education and in the world of technology as it provides insight into gender equity and gaming.

Running from August 12 to 15, the summit will feature panels by prominent women in the game industry including Mary Flanagan, Tracy Fullerton, Jennifer Jenson, Susana Ruiz, and Erin Robinson. The summit’s capstone 3G Indie Expo and Design Challenge is a public expo and design challenge, in which game proposals from the young women participants can be voted on by visitors, with the top game design to be developed into an actual prototype in conjunction with the IAM Department’s Fall capstone course at Columbia College Chicago.

Check out the schedule of events at http://www.colum.edu/specialevents/3G_Summit/3GSchedule.php

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