{"id":4881,"date":"2019-02-02T12:40:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T18:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sisleridm.com\/?p=4881"},"modified":"2019-02-02T12:40:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T18:40:15","slug":"manitoba-students-learning-to-use-coding-design-to-bring-video-games-to-life-cbc-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/2019\/02\/02\/manitoba-students-learning-to-use-coding-design-to-bring-video-games-to-life-cbc-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba students learning to use coding, design to bring video games to life &#8211; CBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bylineDetails\"><span class=\"authorText\">Alana Cole<\/span><span class=\"bullet\"> \u00b7 <\/span>CBC News<span class=\"bullet\"> \u00b7 <\/span><time class=\"timeStamp\" datetime=\"2019-01-31T21:51:52.237Z\">Posted: Jan 31, 2019 3:51 PM CT | Last Updated: January 31<\/time><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"placeholder\">\n<div class=\"placeholderImage aspect-56\"><\/div>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"loaded largeImage\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.cbc.ca\/1.5001095.1548969266%21\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/16x9_780\/student-coding-story.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"imageMedia leadmedia-story full\"><span class=\"leadimage-caption\">More than 300 students at Sisler High School will be participating in the school&#8217;s 5th annual Game On event <\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/315007264\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"story\">\nSisler\u00a0is hosting its\u00a05th annual Game On event, along with partners Ubisoft Winnipeg, New Media Manitoba and Vancouver Film School.<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s great to see the industry give back to the youth,&#8221; Leduc said.<br \/>\nHe says students have been\u00a0divided into groups of three. The teams are each given a pre-created game and from there will work together to use design and coding to develop their own storylines, characters and vision.<br \/>\n&#8220;I think it&#8217;s pretty cool,&#8221;\u00a0said Chantal Philippot, 17, a Grade 12 student at Sisler.\u00a0&#8220;Especially getting people from you know the different companies and things like that to actually come and explain what they do, how they do it and really get a feel for what it&#8217;s like to do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"placeholder\">\n<div class=\"placeholderImage aspect-75\"><\/div>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"loaded largeImage\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.cbc.ca\/1.5001109.1548969673%21\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.JPG_gen\/derivatives\/original_780\/chantal-philippot-is-a-grade-12-student-at-sisler-high-school.JPG?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"imageMedia image full\"><span class=\"leadimage-caption\">Chantal Philippot, 17, is among the students who will be learning how to use code and design to help create a video game at Sisler High School&#8217;s Game On conference. (Alana Cole\/CBC )<\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Leduc says 31 schools are taking part in the event, which runs Thursday and Friday.<br \/>\nStudents will get a chance to showcase their completed games, and judges will be handing out several awards.<br \/>\nJaskaran Kalsi, 17, plays a lot of video games, which is why he said he became interested in making them.<br \/>\n&#8220;I get to make something that&#8217;s my own, which is also a game, which I kind of love to play and I kind of grew up on,&#8221; said the Grade 12 Sisler student, who hopes to have a future in the video game industry.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"placeholder\">\n<div class=\"placeholderImage aspect-56\"><\/div>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"loaded largeImage\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.cbc.ca\/1.5001128.1548969732%21\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_780\/jaskaran-kalsi-grade-12-student-at-sisler-high-school.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"imageMedia image full\"><span class=\"leadimage-caption\">Jaskaran Kalsi, 17, a Grade 12 Student at Sisler who will take part in the annual conference, is excited about the event because &#8216;I get to make something that&#8217;s my own.&#8217; (Gary Solilak\/CBC)<\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Darryl Long, managing director of Ubisoft Winnipeg, says the two-day conference is a unique opportunity.<br \/>\n&#8220;You know a lot of students don&#8217;t get the opportunity to be exposed to this type of software, this type of creative process,&#8221; Long said.<br \/>\nTen Ubisoft Winnipeg staff are taking part in the Game Jam, teaching\u00a0students a variety of software programs, answering questions and mentoring.<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s a time where we get to be creative as well and see things with fresh eyes\u00a0and see, you know, from a kids&#8217; persecutive what does it mean to make video games,&#8221; Long said.<br \/>\nLong says as all industries move toward\u00a0using more technology an experience like this helps students develop important skills.<br \/>\n&#8220;A lot of people don&#8217;t realize that in the near future \u2014 you know, the next five to 10 years \u2014 every industry will be using the kinds of skills that the kids are learning over these two days,&#8221; Long said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"contentFeedback\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alana Cole \u00b7 CBC News \u00b7 Posted: Jan 31, 2019 3:51 PM CT | Last Updated: January 31 More than 300 students<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/2019\/02\/02\/manitoba-students-learning-to-use-coding-design-to-bring-video-games-to-life-cbc-new\/\">DIVE IN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,190],"tags":[732,398,695,490,403,714,158],"class_list":["post-4881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sislerhighschool-2","category-winnipegsd-2","tag-gameonmb","tag-cbc","tag-gameon","tag-nmm","tag-sisleridm","tag-ubisoft","tag-vfs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881","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=4881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sislercreate.com\/Animation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}