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I know it's a terrible location, but I figured it might be worth a shot.

I'm a senior at a high school at which each of us is expected to take part in a mentorship under the guidance of someone who holds a profession related to our area of interest in regards to potential careers.  As such, I was wondering if any TIGers might know anybody working in any kind of game development (anything from Flash to Java to Python to C++ to...) in or around Oklahoma City.  As far as I know, there are no such establishments in the immediate area, but I am ignorant when it comes to everything.

Bleh, qualifications (will PM details and further info if anybody actually finds anything or knows anybody):
I am proficient in Java (...don't know if passing the AP Computer Science AB test means anything) and some web languages (XHTML/CSS/PHP) and have experience with ActionScript CS3.  I made text adventures in QBASIC when I was 10 or 11 years old, but then didn't really touch programming again until high school.  Since then I've cloned Pong and Asteroids and stuff for practice, and I've done a lot of other stuff that I'd prefer not to share (crap shmups, for example), but just to keep practicing.  I might be able to help any potential mentors with "grunt coding" if there is such a thing or I can just do my own stuff and be there simply to fulfill the mentorship requirement.

Thanks much!  If I can't find anything, I can always find another field in which to do this.

Face-to-face time is great, but is there any reason why you need to do that as part of the mentoring program?

Yeah, it's dumb; I wish I could just "mentor" ...like, not in person, as I would think that oftentimes "techy" business is not done in person.  The administration at my school is full of old-timers though, and it probably wouldn't make sense to them.  They want for us to get "real world" experience, whatever that means.