The goal of Future Play is to bring together academics, industry representatives and students to advance game design and technology through peer-reviewed research, creative and experimental game design and development, and formal and informal discussion on academic and industry-related topics.

Understanding and using technology are critical components of all students' academic careers and, most certainly, barometers of their future employment prospects. Given the president's emphasis in the State of the Union on the importance of developing math and science skills in America's students in order to keep America competitive globally, we do not see how eliminating federal education technology funding advances his global competitiveness agenda or helps our students.

Our school districts are moving into the future. We're preparing our students for utilizing new technology that will be emerging in the next few years.

We don't expect the students to come up with the final design. This is more for stimulating discussion and raising awareness about what we want to see in the roundabout and how we're going to get it there.

[Intelligent design advocates were ebullient Tuesday.] It's very significant for the students of Kansas, ... Instead of just the evidence that supports evolution, they're going to see all sides.

There was no way we could design this program from the top down and tell students what to do. We made a deliberate choice to break out of the right-wing model and allow students to define us.