MILAN, April 25 ― While most nine-year-olds have been battling during lockdown with the vagaries of home schooling, Lupo Daturi has been waging war on Covid-19 itself. Virtually. The fourth-grade pupil from the outskirts of Milan, where inhabitants have been living in lockdown since March...
Fourth grade pupil 9-year-old boy Lupo Daturi displays ‘Cerba-20’, an online video game to virtually combat Covid-19 that he built from scratch during lockdown, on April 24, 2020 in his room at home in Binasco, south of Milan ― AFP pic
The fourth-grade pupil from the outskirts of Milan, where inhabitants have been living in lockdown since March 8, has used his time to create a video game to play with his friends. “I can’t even go to the pond with my dog. Instead of playing sports ― skiing, swimming and karate ― I have to make do with an exercise bike.”
That led Lupo to turn his attention to progamming, a passion that he shares with his father Marco, a business manager. The aim of the game is a fairly typical ‘seek and destroy’ with lasers, except in this case, the player is in the captain’s chair of the Cerba-20 spacecraft and the enemy is, that’s right, Covid-19.
“He also receives requests from his teachers to programme something useful, not just games,” says his father.
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