The timing for this couldn't be more perfect.

If your Project 2 is designed to be fun for middle schoolers, and it tries to teach something, then you could win $25,000 in the Hidden Agenda contest.

If you enter your game concept by Dec 15, I'd be happy to support you (or a group) in an independent study geared towards producing the full game by next May.

(I'd enter this contest myself, but it's only open to undergrads. Drat.)