UPEI launches video game competition for junior and senior high school students
As part of Computer Science Education Week, the Department of Computer Science & Information Technology at UPEI is running a video game development competition.
Aimed at PEI junior high and high school students who have gone the through the ‘GameForce program', the contest asks participants to create a game using Game Maker software. On Wednesday, December 1, a game concept will be unveiled and students will have until midnight December 8, 2010 to develop and submit their working video game entry.
The competition is open to junior high school or high school students in the PEI school system (including homeschoolers). Prizes will include a paid summer internship with a Charlottetown-based video game company, bursaries to UPEI and Holland College, gaming consoles and computer equipment. A full prize list will be announced by December 1, 2010.
Entries will be judged by a panel including video game industry professionals and prizes will be awarded at UPEI on Saturday, December 11 at 12 noon in Cass Science Hall, Room 305. More information about the competition can be found at http://www.csit.upei.ca/makeagame/.
Posters advertising the competition have been sent to schools that participate in the GameForce program and announcements about the competition were made at the Impact Expo a couple of weeks ago. GameForce is a designer bootcamp coordinated by the Province of PEI that offers basic 2D game design courses at junior high schools and basic 3D at senior high schools.
For more information, call Dr. David LeBlanc, Department of Computer Science & Information Technology at (902) 566-0429.
