Fall 2002 VR Savvy
Urbana Middle School Girls Create Their Own Worlds at the University of Illinois: Press Release
The VR Savvy project is funded by the "Silicon, Carbon, Culture" campus-wide initiative at the University of Illinois.
NEW! Spring 2003 VR Savvy
Becoming VR-Savvy: Video (8 minutes)
Hear about Bugscope in Ireland!
Two members of the VR Savvy team will be presenting on VR Savvy at the National Science Foundation's Educating with Virtual Experience (EVE 2003) Workshop in Maynooth, Ireland in November. You can view their presentation slides (Powerpoint format).
As part of an exploratory outreach project, these ten 7th and 8th grade girls from
Urbana Middle School are collaborating with each other to build virtual worlds in the
CAVE (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment) facility located on the third floor of
the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois. The CAVE is part of the virtual
reality laboratory at NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications). During
March, April and May of 2002, students will utilize an innovative CAVE program called
"ShadowLight" developed by University of Illinois student Kalev Leetaru for a half-hour
every other week to create their unique virtual worlds.
Co-leaders of the project are:
Dr. Umesh Thakkar, NCSA and GSLIS, UIUC
Pam Van Walleghen, Technology Coordinator, Urbana Middle School
Renee Cooper, Art Teacher, Urbana Middle School
Kevin Erlinger, Science Teacher, Urbana Middle School
