VIDEO: Woonsocket's Sojourner House Video Game Teaches Healthy Relationships
"The Real Robots of Robot High" designed with kids' help, premiered today at Highlander Charter School in Providence.
Students at Highlander Charter School in Providence enjoyed a little limelight this morning while playing "The Real Robots of Robot High" the culmination of a four-year, $1 million grant The Sojourner House won for a video game teaching healthy relationships that's fun. With the speeches done and cameras trained on them, students proved the fun part was a success, allowing few interruptions to their focus on the game. Eric Sip, 10, and Jhalil Brown, 13, only had eyes for the laptop they were taking turns playing the game on. "Yep," said Brown when asked if he was enjoying it. Jeanne D'Agostino, development director at the school, said students have stayed after school until 5:30 p.m. some afternoons to play the game. "That was the whole…
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