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College hosts a dream day for video game enthusiasts
By ANNE LINDBERG
Published July 27, 2006
SEMINOLE - Folks who think school is no place for fun and games should avoid St. Petersburg College today. That's when the Seminole Campus will hold a Video Game Experience and Tournament for current and potential students who may be interested in the college's new game-development track in the digital media curriculum. The game day will serve the dual purpose of keeping the college's current students involved in digital media during the summer break while promoting the program itself, said Jim Olliver, provost of the Seminole Campus. "Our current students will play. Our prospective students will play," Olliver said. Those prospective students can be almost anyone from high school juniors on up, including high school graduates, folks who think they want a career change, or even those who want to take a course or two in video gaming or digital computer media. "What we don't want this to be is where we have a bunch of elementary and middle (school) students coming in and playing," Olliver said. The day, which is free of charge, will be divided into two parts. The morning will be open play. The afternoon will feature a tournament with prizes that include T-shirts and back-to-school bags, said Dawn Waechter, student activities coordinator. The games are Madden NFL 06 and Gran Turismo 4 on PlayStation 2, Dance Dance Revolution and Forza Motorsport on Xbox, Super Mario Kart on Game Cube, and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 and Project Gotham Racing 3 on Xbox 360. The college has held gaming days before for its students. But this is the first time officials have opened the tournaments to outsiders. "It should be a rather energized room, I suspect," Waechter said. The college has had digital media courses for the past few years, and added a course in gaming about a year ago. Olliver's dream of having a complete track in video game development came true this summer when the college's curriculum committee gave its final approval to the concept.
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