Re-Mission Creators Take on Obesity
Wed Jan 9, 2008 5:02PM EST
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The creators of Re-Mission, the video game designed to help kids with cancer visualize their chemo treatments zapping cancer cells and inspire them to stay on track with their treatments, is taking on a new health issue via a video game: childhood obesity.
HopeLab has a booth at the CES Sandbox Summit to showcase its online competition to drum up ideas for a video game that will get kids moving, keep them active, and turn back the tide on childhood obesity. The competition is called Ruckus Nation.
Ellen LaPointe, HopeLab's vice president of Strategic Initiatives, says the company challenged teens to come up with ideas for games that will appeal to middle-school-age kids. Think a new Dance Dance Revolution that will get limbs moving and hearts pumping. There were 429 submissions, and judges are now sifting through the proposals to find their way to the winner.
The winner with the best idea will win $75,000 in March.
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