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  • 1.  Wednesday Chat - College/Career Exploration

    Posted 01-29-2025 04:00 PM

    College/Career Outreach

    What stuff are you guys doing?


    • I have a few colleges out every year (U of Silicon Valley, FIDM) to talk to my classes.
    • I have my intro kids do a career exploration project as their final.
    • I am hopefully going to do a field trip to a school and/or a studio (working on doing San Jose area)


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    Brian Bautista k12teacher
    Citrus Heights CA
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  • 2.  RE: Wednesday Chat - College/Career Exploration

    Posted 01-30-2025 03:08 PM
    1. My students are doing a career exploration unit in February where the final product is each student giving a 5 minute presentation about a career they are interested, certain required parts such as salary, responsibilities, etc and then their plan on how to get there (high school, college, post college start, peak career)

    2. I've had connections in the past with UCSC game design bachelors, UCSC extension masters in game design in San Jose, and a student's parent who currently works for Riot games. We have gone to both UCSC programs in the past and had guest speakers come in. I currently don't have a 2nd semester plan for this, so thanks for the reminder.



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  • 3.  RE: Wednesday Chat - College/Career Exploration

    Posted 01-31-2025 12:01 PM

    Being in the Game Design Wilderness of Kentucky (just a handful of Indies out here) We have started to focus more on the Simlumations/virtual production side of things. We have partnered with a local home builder to do virtual walk-throughs of client houses. We just got a "Ready Player-One" style VR treadmill for walk-throughs. We are renovating one high school and building a new middle school. The district "hired us" to do virtual renderings of both buildings. We are about halfway through the high school (making a slanted floor auditorium in Unity is a bear) and are waiting on the blueprints and rendering from the architect for the middle school. We made some websites where you can try on glasses and school "senior" rings. Virtual production is a little slow as we dismantled our media production facilities a few years ago. It has really gotten kids to think about other uses for the skills (both hard & soft) that they learn in the Game Design Pathway.



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    [Keith] [Barnes]
    [Digital Learning Coach]
    [Bullitt County Public Schools]
    [Shepherdsville] [KY]
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  • 4.  RE: Wednesday Chat - College/Career Exploration

    Posted 01-31-2025 03:35 PM

    That is pretty awesome. One of my students got his foot in the door doing Architecture things before getting hired by Activision.



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    Brian Bautista k12teacher
    Citrus Heights CA
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