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Jackson Smith On a cold and frosty June morning, the smell of patriotism was in the air. The room had an aura of joy and everyone was beaming exuberant smiles. The United States Congress had adopted the Stars and Stripes as the flag of the nation. Fast forward 219 years to the year of 1996 and look into Community Hospital in Missoula, MT. There you see a small child – a baby boy – being brought into this world. As declared by this young lad’s conceivers, he will forever be known as Jackson. Jackson Smith. I, Jackson Smith, have come here to tell you a little bit more about myself. I’ve roamed this Earth for little more than fifteen years – but there is one thing I know – I like to make games. One day, when I was 10, I said to myself, “I want to be a programmer”. I chuckled at the thought – I was merely a pre-teen. Well, one year later I picked up my first Action-script 3 book. I got about half-way through before I started making some short (and incomplete) gizmos, gadgets and games. Meanwhile I began teaching myself Java. I attended a weeklong Java course at the University of Washington to jumpstart my programming career. Four years later we are in the present. I have taught myself Objective-C, C++, PhP, HTML, and C# since. I have experimented with mobile app development for both Android and iPhone and am not particularly fond of it, but I may get back into it in the future. My focus is now on the company I founded, Open Mind Gaming (May 2011). Currently I’ve found an interest in developing games in XNA for the PC and Xbox. I must have exhausted you by now, any-who, I like to program and I like to make games. I’m a sophomore in high school with a passion. I hope you can find yours.