There are lots of high school students interested in working within the video game industry some day, but may not know where to look for information and inspiration.

valvepipeline.jpgThat’s where Valve wants to help. The 17-year-old Bellevue company just launched Pipeline, an experimental project aimed to educate high schoolers about the ins and outs of the video game industry.

Pipeline is operated by a group of high school interns who work at Valve. In addition to answering those questions, the project is also an experiment for the company to “see if we can take a group of high school students with minimal work experience and train them in the skills and methods necessary to be successful at a company like Valve.”

Speaking of high school, one ex-Valve developer recently said that company’s counterintuitive corporate culture, one in which bosses don’t exist and employees are encouraged to take big risks without consult, certainly has some glaring downsides.

Valve, which joined a White House educational technology initiative in 2011, said the Pipeline website will be updated “within a month for so.” Sign up for updates here.

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