In partnership with New Media Manitoba the Communities Economic Development Fund is facilitating a Virtual Game Development Camp next week. CEO Oswald Sawh says it’s for students in grades seven to nine and will cover game development, programming, planning the game, creating the game and debugging and sharing the game.  He explains what they’ve found is game development is a highly multi-disciplinary practice by nature making it perfect for students to learn and they just find it will be a great way for them to know a little bit more about the media industry as a whole.  He adds for grades 3, 4 and 5 it might be a bit too advance for them and for the kids in grades 10, 11 and 12 it may be not advanced enough so the sweet spot is for grades 7 to 9.

The Virtual Camp runs from 1 to 2 next Monday to Friday with questions from 2 to 3 and all students need is an internet connection and an up to date browser.  To register contact Shannon Goulet at 204-627-8139 or email sgoulet@cedf.mb.ca.