Posted by Anthems Staff on: Monday 30 January 2006
Musical Mountain Movers
We love West Virginia here on anthems.com, it's the US state most people consider to be the home of the Redneck, but they couldn't be more wrong.
People from The WV are friendly and, in many cases, forward thinking. Take the area high school using a music game, Dance Dance Revolution, to get the fat off kids.
The game features a good selection of dancing and club music.
The DDR game is being placed in 20 public WV schools as pair of a help-kids-get-fit-kinda trial. If successful, West Virginia is planning to roll out machines to 157 middle schools and eventually all 753 public schools.
This means that the game will be available to almost 280,000 public schools students across the state.
All schools taking part will get a $740 (£414) bundle of kit that includes an Xbox game console, two dance pads and software.