HARLEM -- Not too long ago, all professors Stan Altman and Brian Schwartz knew about video games was that students loved them. Today they're using games to help kids develop skills for the real world.

The duo works with the Harlem Gallery of Science, a nonprofit encouraging students to pursue career paths in science, technology, engineering and math, as well as to help them develop social and emotional skills.

Altman and Schwartz were looking for ways to attract more students of color to STEM programs and wondered if video games, which were popular with their students, held some sort of key. They conducted a study and found an unexpected motivation. Altman noticed that "young people play games to develop skills and in fact, they develop exactly the skills that we in universities talk ab

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