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Can Video Game Testing Spark Interest in Computing Among Black Youth?

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The Glitch team of game testers is made up of 12 African American students aged 16-17. Credit: Rob Felt / Georgia Tech

Georgia Institute of Technology

September 11, 2009

Betsy DiSalvo with Georgia Tech's College of Computing is betting that young African American males' interest in video games can be tapped to generate a greater interest in computer science, and to that end she and her colleagues have started a group in which adolescent African American boys are recruited as game testers. 

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