Set in the relatively slick surrounds of the gaming lab at VU's Flinders St campus, our first session is underway as I write. So far, so good - participants seem to be engaged with a variety of technologies: Second life (for the building of avatars and environments), Spore, Minecraft (a new discovery...kind of a cross between a first person game and a virtual world involving mining, costs $15 to buy and install on a server - thanks Sean for installing it), Crayon Physics, Flash games - and in one case, looking at the bones of the technical setup of the lab including shared drives, registry keys etc.
Almost everyone showed up bar one (and a couple of Gippslanders who will be coming next week)
We have five paid mentors in the room - Dale, Craig, Justin, Sean and Tung - plus Nathan as a peer mentor.
The mood is quiet, calm, and positive, with everyone seemingly into what they're doing and quite a bit of discussion between participants, mentors and parents.
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