{"id":1623,"date":"2016-11-14T20:26:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T02:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sisleridm.com\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2016-11-14T20:26:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T02:26:45","slug":"get-game-design-career-started-vfs-information-session-thursday-november-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/2016\/11\/14\/get-game-design-career-started-vfs-information-session-thursday-november-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Get your game design career started @VFS  (Information Session) &#8211; Thursday, November 17, 11:45 am"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Connect to your future @VFS \u00a0Game Design &amp; Programming<\/h1>\n<h2>On Thursday, November 17, VFS Department Head &amp; Lead Staff will be providing program presentations to\u00a0Sisler IDM students interested in specific VFS programs.<\/h2>\n<p>VFS Panel will also have representation from Ed-Admin, Admissions, and the housing placement service offered by VFS.<br \/>\n<strong>Learn more about the VFS Game Design &amp; Programming Department: \u00a0<\/strong>Panel Discussion with VFS\u00a0Game Design and Programming @ 11:45am Manitoba time (9:45am Vancouver time).\u00a0 Peter Walsh, our Head of Game Design and Programming is confirmed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vfs.edu\/programs\/game-design\">GAME DESIGN<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vfs.edu\/programs\/animation-concept-art\">PROGRAMMING FOR GAMES, WEB + MOBILE<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><strong>To register: \u00a0Please see Mr. Leduc by November 16th, 2016 in room 57\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>About Peter Walsh:<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1649 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sisleridm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/staffphotos_gdpg_peterwalsh_0004_f.jpg?resize=360%2C360\" alt=\"staffphotos_gdpg_peterwalsh_0004_f\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" \/><\/strong><br \/>\nPeter is the Head of VFS&#8217;s award winning Game Design program, and the Head\/Creator of the Programming for Games, Web, and Mobile Program. Also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Senior software engineer and technical director on numerous triple AAA titles from Microsoft, EA, Sony, Activision, and others.<\/li>\n<li>Experienced working with in-development hardware including products for Xbox 360, Sony Move controller, and VR devices while hardware still in pre-production.<\/li>\n<li>Created Canada&#8217;s first industry sponsored VR Lab with Crytek and VRFirst. Speaker on VR at numerous events including SIGGRAPH.<\/li>\n<li>Extensive international experience &#8211; lived in Canada (citizen\/passport holder), UK (citizen\/passport holder), Ireland (citizen\/passport holder), USA (Nexus global entry holder), Portugal, and Saudi Arabia<\/li>\n<li>Editorial board member for the Computer Games Journal<\/li>\n<li>Board of Directors member for Whitebox Interactive<\/li>\n<li>Author of several books on game engine development<\/li>\n<li>On the board of British Columbia&#8217;s K12 Coding Education Advisory committee, helping to develop coding curriculum in all of the provinces K12 schools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Peter has extensive management and technical knowledge across the technical, creative, entertainment industries and education. My large network spans games, film, 3D, visual effects, animation, education, and publishing industries.<br \/>\nLearn more by visiting: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vfs.edu\/programs\">https:\/\/vfs.edu\/programs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connect to your future @VFS \u00a0Game Design &amp; Programming On Thursday, November 17, VFS Department Head &amp; Lead Staff will be providing<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/2016\/11\/14\/get-game-design-career-started-vfs-information-session-thursday-november-17\/\">DIVE IN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,108,109,110,111,113,167,119,127,331,447,137,139,79,176,152,154,82,403,156,157,158,446,229,160,162],"class_list":["post-1623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-masterclasses","tag-animation","tag-pbl","tag-sislerhighschool","tag-sislerhs","tag-winnipegsd","tag-animation-school","tag-best-animation-program-winnipeg","tag-coding","tag-film-school","tag-game-design","tag-game-programming","tag-idm","tag-innovative-high-school","tag-manitoba","tag-post-secondary","tag-project-based-learning","tag-sisler","tag-sisler-high-school","tag-sisleridm","tag-steam","tag-stem","tag-vfs","tag-vfx","tag-video-conference","tag-winnipeg","tag-winnipeg-school-division"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}