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ICT is boring, so I want to start a game development club. How do I create a good argument?

• Hello peoples. My name is James and I am a 16 year-old who has an addiction to computers and ICT, I have taught my-self basic; C, C++ and Angle script. I also know how to use HPL Engine 2 to create professional looking add-ons (another small game with its own story-line that run along-side the main game). I also know how to use Unreal Development Kit. For Christmas I got all the parts for my computer and built it with no help from parents. A month ago I discovered a program called Construct 2 (http://www.scirra.com/construct2) and it was simple enough to use, and I made my own game and published it: http://www.scirra.com/arcade/puzzle/85/black-n-white . It was great and I had great feed-back from everyone. The next day I had ICT, in school. We were doing spread-sheets and stuff in Microsoft Access, I know how to do all of that boring stuff. Then I had a great idea, why not start a club in school teaching people some of the basic game making principles in Construct 2! Why not? ICT in school isn't ICT is it more like office skills, all we ever do is; Microsoft this and Microsoft that. It is so boring! Then teachers and people in the news wonder why we (the UK) aren't producing the programmers that we used to, it's because ICT is boring! We don't learn anything about computers! Nobody is interested in ICT. So, at lunch, I went back to my ICT teacher and showed her my game I made in Construct 2. She said it was amazing! That I should show the other ICT teacher, so I showed him and he said it was amazing! Then I told them about my idea to start a club in school, I said that I'd happily run it, all they had to do is supervise. They both suggested that I go to the head of ICT to ask about this club and if it's a good idea. So, then I went to the head of ICT. I explained that the club is fun for everybody, it will get people into ICT and that people are sick of Microsoft. He asked me how much it cost to buy, I told him that it was free-ware and that the school didn't have to buy it. Then he tried to pick holes in my plan, and the excuse that he came up with is that it cost £900 to put it on the system. I think that this is bull-crap. He just doesn't like the idea that I will be teaching people stuff he may not understand. He said that he'd talk to the head teacher about it. 2 weeks later, I hadn't heard back from him. I told my dad (a fellow computer geek :D ) that he hadn't got back to me. My dad said that he'd talk to the head-teacher about it at the parent's association meeting that he was going to. Then my dad went to the meeting. When he came back, he said that he'd had a talk with the deputy head because the head wasn't there. The deputy had heard nothing about the computer club I was trying to start. Out-raged, the next day I went straight to the head-teacher about it. I asked if she'd heard about the club and she didn't even know that I wanted to start a club. I told her what it was about, she agreed to talk to the head of ICT about it. The following day, the head of ICT came up to me and demanded why I went to the head-teacher about the club. I told him that he hadn't been to see her and that I was tired of waiting for him. That's the last I saw of him. He still hasn't told me if I can or can't do my club. I am at a loss of what to do, with neither a green-light or a red-light, I don't know if I should start planning or leave it. How do I create a great argument, supporting my club. This is something that I feel VERY passionate about, the idea of my club is; showing people that the work we do in ICT isn't anything to do with computers, the game creation that we'd be doing IS. It isn't just about computers there is allot of Mathis to making a game, I have had to use a complex Sin function. There is also allot of physics involved. So it may show people the 'more fun' side of different subjects and that class-work isn't what work people do in the real world. How can I make a good argument to support my club? Construct 2 isn't hard to use. It's free. It uses HTML 5. And it's great fun to see the results that YOU have made. How would you go about gaining support and creating a argument supporting my club? -Thank-you ever so much taking time to read this.

• Answer:

  Next move: Go find 9 more students who also want this, then the 10 of you are gunna go back to the head of ICT, and more or less camp out until somebody says "Okay, okay already. I gotta pee, lemme out! You can have your club." This is more of a political move than a tech one. Nothing works better then populist direct action for getting things changed NOW. My guess is that as soon as you knock on the door with a GROUP of people interested in perusing additional computer skills, and you explain that that is what it is, you'll have your club that day. You've shown clearly that you are serious, and unafraid to plow through road-blocks. Now show that there are others who want the same thing. Who knows? Maybe whoever ends up supervising (and somebody will end up supervising within the week) will learn something. :)