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May 17, 2012 09:00 pm GMT

Hacker High School, GameDesk, Aims To Create A Generation of Makers

gamedesk-screenshotFacebook created a $100 billion empire on top of a "hacker culture," a workplace ethos that encourages wild experimentation and collaborative fun. Now, AT&T is betting $3.8 million that one school, GameDesk, can prepare students for the controlled chaos of the modern workplace.At GameDesk, subjects, from English to Algebra, are an interdisciplinary investigation into real world problems and the curriculum employs the creation of video games, movies, and art, to understand them better. For instance, CEO, Lucien Vattel, explains to TechCrunch, in order to recreate one's own version of Angry Birds, students must model the mathematical principal of an arc, the parabola. Armed with a heavy dose of curiosity, and the skills to physically create new products, graduates will be better prepared for the modern workforce.

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