From airline Wi-Fi to lost bags, the story of this weekend reads like a Seinfeld episode.  Today the newsletter is being produced from inside the gym at Western Oregon University at the 2023 Oregon Game Project site.  I watched a team of eighth-grade students from St. Pius Catholic grade school compete in a gaming competition.  The competition isn't for gaming participants; it's for game developers.  This background will be the stories I will tell you today, with it, more optimism for our future and the incredible kids who can inspire all of us.

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Several hundred kids from Portland, Oregon, participated in the 16th annual Oregon Game Project.  Each fall, OGPC announces a theme for the year's competition, and teams work to design a video game based on that theme to present at the main event in May.  This season the theme was Breaking Conventions.

The competition teaches students various skills, such as coding, art and music creation, project management, teamwork, and presentation skills.  The highlight of the season is the competition held at Western Oregon University.  At the competition, each team sets up a version of the game they built and explains how they built it to a panel full of judges.  After the judging, all the competitors are encouraged to play other teams' games.

It was a remarkable event, and the youth-building games are another bright spot in our world.

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