XNA learning started

I am mentoring a group of students at Chapman in a game development contest to build a game around the U.N. Millennium goals. I'm having a ton of fun with it.(http://imaginecup.com/Competition/mycompetitionportal.aspx?competitionId=21).

That said, I don't have any code duties on that so to learn XNA I've been back to trying to write a game a week, this time using XNA instead of Java (http://www.woodsgoods.com/gaw). I don't think the quality will be there, but I'll try and post some screenshots and lessons learned moving forward.