[game_edu] Unity Technology to Award 80 Phones to schools

[Shawn Fredrick at 019]

Hi Davey,

I think we meet at GDC last year, I came to the Unity office party the week of GDC.

I would love to find out what it would take to become part of this program. We have over 120 game design students and I am always looking for different avenues for them to develop their ideas on. 

We currently have Torque and Unity as game engines that we use in the classes here at ITT-Green Bay. We have found that the students learning curve on Unity is significantly less than that on Torque and the students are able to create multiple games in an 11 week quarter whereas they would only be able to produce 1 game per every 2 quarters previously.

Shawn Fredrick
Program Chair
Digital Entertainment & Game Design
ITT - Tech, Green Bay
sfredrick at itt-tech.edu
920.662.9000
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From: game_edu-bounces at igda.org [game_edu-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Davey Jackson [davey.jackson2 at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 2:36 PM
To: game_edu at igda.org
Subject: [game_edu] Unity Technology to Award 80 Phones to schools

Hello friends,

I'd like to enlist your help in getting the word out about a $240k giveaway<http://unity3d.com/education/> Unity is offering to Colleges and Universities. In addition to software, Unity is also providing mobile handsets to 20 schools for Android Development. Some of you may have seen Samsung's recent announcement that it plans to ship 10 million Android Powered Galaxy Tabs<http://mobile.venturebeat.com/2010/09/07/samsung-expects-to-sell-10m-galaxy-tab-android-tablets-by-q3-2011-may-cost-between-200-300/> by October 2011.  This is the same rate that Apple expects to ship iPads at and it does not include the millions of Android powered phones which Samsung will also ship in the coming year.  Clearly Android is an emerging force and will be an important development platform for students to be familiar with in the coming years.  The purpose of the Unity RFP is to outfit schools with hardware and software to create course content around this exciting new platform. I hope that many of you will take advantage of this exciting opportunity to win a complete mobile development lab from Unity Technologies.

If you have any questions regarding this RFP, please email me at daveyj at unity3d.com<mailto:daveyj at unity3d.com>.  I would also like to invite you to join my LinkedIn network here.<http://www.linkedin.com/pub/davey-jackson/1/155/428>

Thank you for your time and consideration, I look forward to reviewing many of your proposals.

--Davey Jackson
Director of Educational Outreach
Unity Technologies
www.unity3d.com/education<http://www.unity3d.com/education>