Xprize Connect launches game-making challenge for kids and teens

The Xprize nonprofit foundation is announcing Xprize Connect, a new learning initiative in which students will compete to make video games. The first major competition in the Xprize Connect initiative is Code Games: A Global Game-Making Challenge. The foundation will give entrants between the ages of 10 and 18 a chance to win thousands of dollars as they build games that depict a better future for humanity.

The Xprize Foundation was set up to create competitions to solve humanity’s grand challenges, and it has given away tens of millions of dollars to its winners. This Xprize Connect initiative aims to democratize access to learning through technology and allow a new generation of innovators to follow their interests and develop needed skills for the fully digital world, said Emily Church, the executive director of education and learning at Xprize, in an interview with GamesBeat.