[game_edu] ESA Foundation Computer and Video Game Scholarship Program

[Leo Moreno]

It gets even more challenging when you try to integrate it into a high
school level program into Computer Science!

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>>> Ian Schreiber <ai864 at yahoo.com> 2/27/2009 3:39 PM >>>

Are there even any community college programs in game design? Every
time I've tried to think of what a game design degree should look like,
I can barely fit it into four years.
 
Or did you mean game development in general?

--- On Fri, 2/27/09, Taghavi-Burris, Akram <ataghaviburris at occc.edu>
wrote:

From: Taghavi-Burris, Akram <ataghaviburris at occc.edu>
Subject: Re: [game_edu] ESA Foundation Computer and Video Game
Scholarship Program
To: "IGDA Game Education Listserv" <game_edu at igda.org>
Date: Friday, February 27, 2009, 6:29 PM



Are there any scholarships for community college students in game
design?


--Akram Taghavi-Burris
Professor of Computer Aided Technology
Oklahoma City Comunity College

On Feb 27, 2009, at 4:10 PM, "S. Gold" <goldfile at gmail.com> wrote:




ESA Foundation Computer and Video Game Scholarship Program 

In 2007 the ESA Foundation established a scholarship program to assist
women and minority students who are pursuing degrees leading to careers
in Computer & Video Game Arts. This year we are pleased to extend this
opportunity to graduating high school seniors, doubling the amount of
awards granted from 15 to 30.

The scholarships are offered each year for full-time study at
accredited four-year colleges and universities. Up to 30 scholarships of
$3,000 each will be awarded annually, 15 to graduating high school
seniors and 15 to current college students. The number of awards given
in each category will be determined by the number of qualified
applicants.

This scholarship program is administered by International Scholarship
and Tuition Services, Inc. To apply, please visit
https://www.applyists.net <https://www.applyists.net/>  and use the
access key “ESAF” between March 1 and May 15, 2009 for the 2009-2010
academic year.

Applicants must be:
        Women or minority students,
        Pursuing degrees leading to careers in computer and video game
arts,
        Enrolled in a full-time undergraduate course of study at an
accredited four-year college or university, and
        Maintaining a grade point average of 2.75 or above on a 4.0
scale (or its equivalent)


For more information about the ESA Foundation, please visit
http://theesa.com/foundation.
-- 
Susan Gold
Skype: tahoegold

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is
all." Oscar Wilde


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