IBM has created a scientific 3D game for teenagers

    IBM has entered a somewhat unusual market for multiplayer online games (MMOG). In the new free 3D-game PowerUp, participants are trying to save the planet Helios from an environmental disaster. Three missions are offered for players: programs for installing windmills, solar panels or water power stations as alternative types of energy.

    The development of the project on its own engine took sixteen months from IBM programmers. As consultants, 200 students from Connecticut science enthusiasts were invited.


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    This project is part of the IBM’s TryScience initiative, which involves promoting popular science among modern youth. In America, this is a big problem. Local youth in no way wants to go to study as engineers, mathematicians, physicists and programmers. In American universities, most of the students in these specialties are already foreigners.

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