SCEA, Sackboy Sign Up To Assist Obama's New Campaign
Sony Computer Entertainment America has joined President Obama's bid to assist our children in becoming more interested in the areas of education and invention/innovation.
The president's "Educate to Innovate" Campaign for Excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (Stem) Education seeks to open the minds of youngsters in new and improved ways, so the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation have decided to launch a $2 million open competition for any ideas that will help us "transform learning using digital media." SCEA, together with the ESA and Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, will team up with MacArthur to support Game Changers, "a new component of the competition." Basically, they're going to utilize the one game that always rewards innovation and creativity - the stellar LittleBigPlanet - and reward the best efforts in the area of level creation. SCEA will donate 1,000 PlayStation 3 machines, along with copies of the game to libraries and low-income communities. Said President and CEO of SCEA, Jack Tretton:
"We're thrilled by the opportunity to participate and support the Game Changer Challenge announced today. It casts a huge spotlight on the innovative medium that is video games and digital entertainment. It also embodies for us what we see everyday - - that amazing things can happen when you provide the right tools and environment, combine it with great technology, and put it in the hands of really creative people. More than 3 million unique users are actively playing, creating, and sharing user-generated levels in our LittleBigPlanet community and to date, more than 1.4 million unique levels have been uploaded to PlayStation Network. This sheer magnitude of imagination and shared learning is truly unprecedented. We’re extremely excited to have LittleBigPlanet and PS3 serve as the vehicle for this national competition and we greatly look forward to all the new innovations that will come out of this as a result."
You said it, Jack. This is a damn good idea, as far too many kids are left behind when it comes to science and math, and LBP can really help to get those "innovative" juices flowing. However, as I believe we're far more deficient in the arts these days, I'm kinda hoping Obama addresses that lacking at some point, too. Seriously, seniors in high school who can't spell?
11/24/2009 10:25:58 AM Ben Dutka
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Zorigo
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 12:37:12 PM
shaydey77
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 5:05:48 PM
Snaaaake
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 6:05:45 PM
BikerSaint
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 11:58:23 PM
BTNwarrior
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 11:43:42 AM
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Superman915
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 5:09:12 PM
mike rlz
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 1:07:42 PM
Jawknee
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 1:20:20 PM
tes37
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 3:45:05 PM
They can keep anything that the deadhead liberals come up with away from my child. How about some real education, but I guess that's too much to ask for. Obama is a joke and if they come out with an Obama character for LBP, I'll delete every file I have that's related to LBP.
OtisFeelgood
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 9:39:50 PM
Jawknee
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 9:11:48 AM
Jawknee
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 12:19:03 PM
You provoked me. Don't call me boy.
Doosharm
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 12:32:18 PM
Zorigo
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 12:38:22 PM
OtisFeelgood
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 12:51:11 PM
Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 2:35:32 PM
MyWorstNightmar
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 4:41:03 PM
Obama, Reed, and Palosi are good for one thing. They are going to wake America up and bring us back to fiscal conservatism I believe.
Thomas Jefferson: "A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government."
Ben this does relate to video games!! If I don't have enough money left in my pocket at the end of the day due to the government thinking they know best how to spend my money, I can't buy video games! =)
MyWorstNightmar
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 4:44:15 PM
Jawknee
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 10:04:43 AM
WorldEndsWithMe
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 11:59:29 AM
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Random_Steve
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 12:04:42 PM
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Superman915
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 4:08:45 PM
Jawknee
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 7:24:29 PM
You see, Berry's magic allows him to be for what ever he's wants. :)
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NoSmokingBandit
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 12:43:02 PM
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Superman915
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 4:12:09 PM
leatherface
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 2:19:57 PM
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Superman915
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 4:03:15 PM
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Obama is not perfect at all, but every time you feel the need to whine about Obama as president, remind yourself that if we would've ended up with the alternative, we would be a bad day and a heart attack away from President Sarah Palin.
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tes37
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 4:33:29 PM
MyWorstNightmar
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 4:53:31 PM
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Hezzron
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 6:31:05 PM
BikerSaint
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 10:31:29 PM
tes37
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 10:36:59 PM
Jawknee
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 9:53:55 AM
At least Palin has governed and successfully.
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Bugzbunny109
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 4:44:30 PM
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Scarecrow
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 7:29:37 PM
BikerSaint
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 11:44:24 PM
Thanks for the welcome back!
I had to leave on a small government-induced...er....vacation at the Gray Bar Hotel for a about 3 months at the end of late July.
It seem's that I didn't have a merchantile license to fully practice my "attitude adjustment techniques" on a silly f*cking trash-talker.
But no worries, it was well worth the 3 hot's-&-a-cot, cause shutting his piehole up was a truly satisfying reward just in itself.
BTW, the hardest part of the whole dealio was that even though I've been back here on the PSXExtreme for about three weeks now, I just spent all that time readingevery article & comments going all the way back when I left on July 27 & up to this very article right now.(and damn, my eyeball's are hurting).
MyWorstNightmar
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 1:28:29 AM
ace_boon_coon
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 7:32:51 PM
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Geobaldi
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 10:43:16 PM
BikerSaint
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 1:47:47 AM
Jawknee
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 9:34:12 AM
Like bikersaint said, how long? He's already a worse pres then bush ever was. He's done. Bet you he's loses or doesn't run in 2012.
Jawknee
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 9:41:43 AM
mike rlz
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 3:24:53 PM
Jawknee
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 7:25:37 PM
BikerSaint
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 4:52:33 PM
I also voted for Ron Paul.
And I liked all of his platform as well.
Besides that, he was the "ONLY" candidate willing to roll back the scariest law in America that's being used illegally to spy against all of our own nation's citizenship, and that law is the f*cking so-called....
"patriot act".
BTW, Had this great man decided to run, I also think Colin Powell would've been a good secondary choice too.
At least he's the most honest of the bunch, & that's probably why the ass-clowns in power made him their scapegoat at the end & pushed him off to the side as a non-factor.
mike rlz
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 9:04:14 PM
BikerSaint
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 10:49:56 PM
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How much more time should we give him????
In the 10 or so months he's been in office, he's already given most of America away with his "lets-spend-what-we don't-have,-and-then some more" mentality.
If this keeps up, America will be solely owned & run by foreign banks.
I dread the hard times ahead for my grandchildren, their children, and their children's childen, etc, etc, who are going to have to grow up in famine, just trying to survive the poverty due to the damage he's doing to America right now, as he continues to chip away at America's future.
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Dancemachine55
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 10:59:39 PM
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BikerSaint
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 11:17:23 PM
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HUGE PROPS TO SONY FOR THAT!!!!!!!
But, I'll lay 100 to 1 odds that Sony won't make a big publicity stunt out of it, while the top Bozo in office will have a field day with the extra press on it.
I'm sure he'll f*cking milk this more than the owners of a 1-teated single-cow dairy farm
And who else besides myself, also thinks that this smells like the very same thing that Anti-vision's Kotex is trying doing with his new Veteran's program.
My thought's are that both our own chief Bozo in office, & Anti-vision's chief Bozo in office are only doing this to garner some good publicity after all the negative sh*t they've been saying or doing.
Maybe kotex can also give our residentlial White House Commanding "Happy DeClown" a DJ Hero game, and that way he can seen more accurately for what he really is, a .....
MasterDJ-SnakeOil SpinDoctor
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BikerSaint
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 12:55:20 AM
tes37
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 3:30:43 PM
OtisFeelgood
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 9:19:11 PM
Superman915
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 9:24:41 PM
___________
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 1:41:39 AM
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Thrill Kill
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 8:12:57 AM
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OtisFeelgood
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 10:13:39 AM
MyWorstNightmar
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 1:49:11 PM
Should I blame Bill Clinton that he sucked so bad, that he is the reason we got Bush, so Bill Clinton is to blame for us getting Obama?
No matter how bad Obama is, should he not suffer our scorn...ever?
BikerSaint
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 3:39:19 PM
Understood & agree 100%!
We should be totally aware of what & who the hidden powers are, that are out to f*ck America for their own agenda, that being of personal greed wealth, and superpower.
Powerful groups like the Illuminati, the Tri-lateral Commission, & the Branenberger(sp?)
Group.
Also, the Federal Reserve Bank, which isn't any federal, or government agency at all, but is actually a group of 12 world super-bankers), the secret Owl Society at Yale(I think???), plus a few other super-secret-society groups scattered around that I can't recall at this very moment.
And you better start watching FEMA right now too. I believe they are also getting into the act, doing shady behind the scenes crap to further the agenda fo those groups above too.
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Imagi
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 7:58:53 PM
BikerSaint
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 @ 3:43:25 PM
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LittleBigPlanet









jerocarson
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009 @ 10:42:52 AM
it only does everything.