Obama Honors Creator of Game That Helps Kids Cope with Cancer

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At the White House yesterday, President Barack Obama lauded a California non-profit which publishes a PC game designed to help children and teens cope with cancer.

As reported by the San Mateo Daily Journal, Obama recognized HopeLab and its game Re-Mission as an example of the kind of social innovation that is worthy of support from both the public and private sectors. Praising the work of HopeLab and three other non-profits during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, the President said:

If we work together — if we all go all-in here — think about the difference we can make. Think about the impact we could have with just the organizations represented in this room.

A White House press release praised HopeLab and its game:

HopeLab is dedicated to finding solutions that have broad impact, and works closely with tweens, teens and young adults to create fun, innovative products that meet their needs. Among them is Re-Mission, HopeLab's groundbreaking video game for young people with cancer. Data show that that Re-Mission improves treatment adherence and other key health outcomes... HopeLab is also developing products to combat sedentary behavior in children as a way to fight the effects of childhood obesity.

C-SPAN video of the ceremony is available here. More details of the event are available via HopeLab's Twitter account.
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9 comments // Obama Honors Creator of Game That Helps Kids Cope with Cancer

  • cztheday
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      cztheday  

    • SIJ,

      "Economy not so good:" I am not sure what your expectations were with regard to the economy, but I would respectfully suggest that just getting the slide to "bottom out" in six months looked like it would require a minor miracle when he took office. Turning the American economy around is like turning an aircraft carrier around...it's not going to be fast, and it's not going to be pretty but once it is going the OTHER direction, the same thing is true.

      "Foreign relations" is, of course, about a heck of a lot more than just trade. How someone can be either "for" or "against" world trade is kind of beyond me. America has been involved in world trade for going on 400 years (even before Plymouth Rock). We will ALWAYS be engaged in world trade. The issue is one of fairness...and Obama has done more on that front in six months than Bush did in 8 years.

      Prohibition? No idea what that even means. Smokes, so he can't talk about personal responsibility? (come on, we elected a President not a Saint...looking at every President since Kennedy if smoking is the worst thing Obama does he IS a saint compared to the rest of those guys)

      Slapped around by the banks -- sided with the banks. Huh? Sorry, but that is getting a little too "tin foil hat" for me. There are thousands of banks in this country. They are competing with each other like crazy, and if you work for one, your boss expects you to have nothing good to say about the others. There is no "conspiracy among all the banks" in the country. I am sure there ARE some sweetheart deals between a few execs at the biggest -- but there is just too much money to be made by the people who want their jobs for the seniors not to be looking over their shoulders at the aggressive juniors coming up behind them. Sided with the banks? Not even worthy of a response (other than "can you spell political suicide?" He would never, ever, EVER "side with the banks." Any hope of a second term would be gone just like that -- that's Limbaughtalk, and I have seen enough of your posts to know you are WAY smarter than Limbaugh...

    • 7 months ago
  • sickinjersey
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      sickinjersey  

    • Does it really take that much of an education to know when things are incorrect as they are now ? I HOPED obama would stay true to his word and on some very vital issues he has , almost.Stem Cells , Good One.But he failed to get his own party to support the funding that would save suffering children and elderly.Economy not so good, we are still being slapped around by the banks.He sided with the banks obviously. Foreign relations ?I am not for world trade so i really do not care.Military good .Prohibition fail.Smokes and talks about personal responsibility to set examples in our civic lives.He seems like a nice guy and all but we are still caught in the stream of greed and he is paddling with the current instead of against it.There are many things i did not mention like guantanamo and many others that were complete snow jobs but i am tired of typing.4 years will give us another opportunity for even more change.

    • 7 months ago
  • cztheday
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      cztheday  

    • Hmmmm. I followed the campaign pretty closely. Obama wasn't my top choice during the primaries. Frankly, he wasn't even in my top three. But a little over six months into the job -- yeah, he has kept just about every promise he made that COULD be kept in six months.

      Why doesn't he "fix" healthcare? No offense, sickinjersey, but the FIRST reason he doesn't is because he is a President, not a King. We don't allow our Presidents to rule by royal decree in the United States -- even if Bush had a different opinion. The SECOND reason he doesn't "fix" healthcare is because he is the President and not Congress. Congress is the body that has to draft the necessary federal statutes.

      As the "first among equals" in the Democratic Party, Obama can make known his preferences (and even his STRONG preferences). Congress is still free to completely ignore him...except to the extent they don't want to send him legislation he is likely to veto -- unless those in Congress are confident they have the two-thirds of the total votes necessary to override that veto. In which case they CAN completely ignore him.

      I have been kicking around on the planet for close to 50 years. Of the Presidents I have watched, Obama has performed better during his first six months than Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I and Bush II. Can he keep it up? I don't have the faintest idea -- and neither does anyone else. But the beginning is quite acceptable. The next moronic Bush in the line of succession (shit! that's it! inbreeding! that is why all the Bushes are mental defects! why didn't I think of that before?) would have had us in at LEAST two more wars by now...

    • 7 months ago
  • Kineticus
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      Kineticus  
    • cztheday:

      Hello,
      I read your opinion of the presidents ect. And you seem like a very smart fellow. But you must try and see the bigger picture. First of all...you were "supposed" to hate bush...he was supposed to be the fall guy, its blantantly obvious...when the government sponsered/ran media is bashing the "most important man in america" (bush) then you know somethings up.
      And Obama, don't even get me started. I've studied politics, economy for my whole life, I am also an avid history buff, and everything I have learned my whole life screams that this isn't right, that something isn't right with this system.
      Well I didn't have to "look" far. He has an entire wallstreet administration, the man he put in charge of the national treasury used to run the Federal Reserve (which is as federal as federal express). SO please friend, don't fall for Obamas charisma, he is the same figurehead that bush was/is, because what makes you think that the people in power, would ever, EVER give up that power. They will never willingly set aside control both economicaly and socially in any country.
      Hence all our elections scandals.
      There is so much to say about Obama, and the entire sham that has become our democracy. My advice to you is to look into it more, and once you learn that America is being lie to yet again, you will have quite the job convincing others to open thier eyes.
      I get pretty tired telling people not to fall prey to Propaghanda from our government. So i'm not going to list everything I know. Just look it up man. Obama is a fake. Soon everyone will see it, be one of the first.
      Good Luck.

    • 7 months ago
  • Nettle
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      Nettle  
    • cztheday:

      @Kineticus: I can understand your feelings in regards to the system. It's too big for a single ordinary citizen to grasp in both hands. But that doesn't mean that everything is a complete fallacy. I personally think the electoral college is just a way to cheat the people out of a vote, but I'm not skeptical about everything.

      Manchurian Candidate was a good book, but I don't think the lazy ass government would actually take the time to orchestrate such an elaborate scheme.

      I'm not trying to change you're cynical ways, but just wanted to point out that not everything is doom and gloom in the government world. Actually, why don't you try infiltrating the system and making a change for the better? Seems to me you're educated enough to know what to do.

      Good luck!

    • 7 months ago
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