I just saw a commercial for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) college scholarship program. I quickly went online to find more details. You can find out more at http://www.chci.org/chciyouth/scholarship/scholarship.htm

The good news is that there is some money available. The bad news is that it offers a maximum of 4000 dollars per year. With current college tuition rates I don't think that this will cover all of the costs, even at a state college. Still, every little bit helps.

The MacArthur foundation just granted $1.1 Million towards development of a school in New York City that will use “game design and game-inspired methods” to teach children. There are lots of interesting parallels to our work in this article. Katie Salen (author of Rules of Play) and the Gamelab Institute of Play are involved.