{"id":973981,"date":"2019-12-10T20:40:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T03:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=925198"},"modified":"2019-12-10T20:40:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T03:40:09","slug":"chance-the-rapper-enlists-chicago-students-to-code-i-love-you-so-much-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/chance-the-rapper-enlists-chicago-students-to-code-i-love-you-so-much-video-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Chance the Rapper Enlists Chicago Students to Code \u2018I Love You So Much\u2019 Video Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ChancetheRapper.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/chance-the-rapper\/\" id=\"auto-tag_chance-the-rapper\" data-tag=\"chance-the-rapper\">Chance the Rapper<\/a> has unveiled the official new video for his collaborative track with DJ Khaled, \u201cI Love You So Much.\u201d It comes in the form of a video game called <a href=\"https:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/projects\/350898423\/embed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>SuperMe<\/em><\/a>, which was coded and designed by Chicago Public School students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2017, with CS4All, Scratch, and a little help from Google, we told hundreds of kids from the South Side of Chicago they could&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/outreach-initiatives\/education\/teaming-socialworks-bring-computer-science-chicago-public-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">do anything with code<\/a>,\u201d Chance wrote in a blog post about the project on Monday. \u201cSince then, we\u2019ve been busy with teacher training, hosting family creative coding nights, and getting the whole community excited about what\u2019s possible with code.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow the kids are coding. Seven elementary schools spent a bunch of time creating a game and drawing themselves as superheroes \u2014 that can fly! That can teleport! That collect hearts. All using code,\u201d he continued. \u201cA few weeks ago, I saw their incredible work and am so proud of them that I decided their projects should be seen by the entire world\u2026 So today, the first day of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/edu.google.com\/code-with-google\/edweek\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Computer Science Education Week<\/a>, I present you with \u2014 <em>SuperMe<\/em>, the official video game for \u2018I Love You So Much\u2019 (because anyone can make a music video).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The game features the student-created superheroes modeled after themselves, who fly through the cityscape collecting hearts. The video opens with a description: \u201cSuperheroes come in all shapes and sizes. We all possess the power to be a hero. Take a journey with our Chicago Public School heroes.\u201d The game is soundtracked to \u201cI Love You So Much.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A programming activity called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/csfirst.withgoogle.com\/c\/cs-first\/en\/code-your-hero\/overview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Code Your Hero<\/a>\u201d that takes inspiration from the Chicago students\u2019 creation was launched on Tuesday and is available for students and teachers to use.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Google gave a $1.5 million grant to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-chance-the-rapper-announce-2-2-million-fund-for-chicago-schools-126511\/\">Chance\u2019s SocialWorks<\/a> and CS4All and on Monday the company donated another $250,000 to the initiative.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/chance-the-rapper-i-love-you-so-much-video-game-made-by-chicago-students-925198\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chance the Rapper has unveiled the official new video for his collaborative track with DJ Khaled, \u201cI Love You So Much.\u201d It comes in the form of a video game called SuperMe, which was coded and designed by Chicago Public School students. \u201cIn 2017, with CS4All, Scratch, and a little help from Google, we told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 16:09:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}