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Detroit
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Detroit
holds
Games
for
Change
Student
XR
Hackathon
at
Northwest
Activities
Center
By
HB Meeks
Tell Us
Detroit
DETROIT
- The
City of
Detroit
hosted
an AR/VR
Hackathon
Wednesday
morning,
December
11,
2019, at
the
Northwest
Activities
Center,
allowing
Detroit
students
to test
their
technological
and
troubleshooting
abilities.
The
Games
for
Change
Student
XR
Hackathon
–
presented
by
Verizon
is an
innovative
hackathon
program
that
invites
students
to
visualize
the
future
of 5G
technology
through
creative
AR/VR
projects.
The
program
is a
partnership
between
the
Verizon
Foundation
and
Games
for
Change
(G4C),
which
empowers
students
to
create
immersive
experiences
that can
improve
lives,
lift our
communities
and
solve
real-world
problems.
Detroit
Mayor
Duggan
paid a
visit to
the
event
and had
these
observations,
“I know
these
kids are
a lot
more
advanced
than I
am, I'm
anxious
to see
the
virtual
reality
products
and the
augmented
reality,
but this
is what
our
young
folks
need to
be
exposed
to at an
early
age, and
you can
tell the
level of
interest,
this is
a great
day.”
Across
the
country,
middle
school
students
will
join
hands-on
workshops
to learn
AR/VR
tools
and
technologies,
while
gaining
critical
STEAM
and
21st-century
skills.
Before
Detroit,
G4C
hosted
similar
hackathons
in
Cleveland
and
Pittsburgh.
The
Detroit
event
featured
a total
of 50
students
from
Detroit’s
John R
King and
MacDowell
Prep
Academy
Middle
Schools.
President
of Games
for
Change,
Susanna
Pollack,
summarizes
the
opportunity,
saying,
“Detroit
is the
perfect
city to
host a
G4C
Student
XR
Hackathon
–
presented
by
Verizon.
The
opportunity
to offer
students
an
experience
in which
they can
develop
important
STEM and
21st
Century
Skills
using
immersive
technology
is
transformative.”
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