Registration is open for GAMBIT Equal Pay Challenge digital game jam

[Darren Torpey]

Hi jammers!

Registration is now open for GAMBIT's Equal Pay Challenge digital game
jam that I mentioned a week ago:

http://equalpaygamejam.eventbrite.com/

In case you missed it before, here's Rik Eberhardt's description of
the event:

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We will be making games to submit to the Equal Pay Challenge,
sponsored by
the Department of Labor and the White House. You're welcome to bring
your
own team or form a team on site or even work individually.

More details about the challenge are here:
http://equalpay.challenge.gov/

The short version is: "The National Equal Pay Task Force wants your
help in
building innovative tools to educate the public about the pay gap and
promote equal pay for women."

The longer version is that we will be creating games that will either
take
advantage of the data that is provided by the Dept of Labor or other
resources to educate players about the pay gap. The organizers ask
that the
games work to achieve at least one of the following goals:
• Provide greater access to pay data by gender, race, and ethnicity
• Provide tools for early career coaching
• Help inform negotiations
• Promote online mentoring

GAMBIT will be providing food. Representatives of the Department of
Labor
will talk to us about the topic when we start, and will watch our
presentations of the games at the end of the jam. I'm working on
having
regular check-ins with a rep so that if participants have questions,
we can
ask them.

We're following the standard weekend jam hours: Saturday 9am to
midnight,
Sunday 9am to 5pm. Participants are welcome to brainstorm on their
own
before the jam and bring as many ideas as you like into the jam
space.

Rik Eberhardt
Studio Manager
Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
reber...@mit.edu
617-324-2173