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Lanier Tech courses build skills
By Lara Moore
Staff Writer
Who says video games are
senseless?
Lanier Technical College is
offering classes that make gam¬
ing educational.
The video game design and
’game modmg” classes are two
of nine technology-intensive
summer camps offered to chil¬
dren in fifth through 12th
grades.
Royce Glenn, Lamer Tech’s
director of continuing educa
bon, sa id game modifying
allows students to “take an
existing video game and put
your own little twist to it."
Sara Harrison, camp coordi
nator, said teachers of the
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What: Lanier Technical College summer camps
When: June 23-27
Where: Forsyth County campus, off Majors Road
Cost: $100 per class
More info: (770) 531-4500, or www.laniertech.edu
gamer-friendly courses “show
them how important math is, as
well as the design and element
of the game. 55
“These guys are in both art
classes as well as math classes,”
she said. “These are our gamers,
These are the people that do it
professionally in the industry.”
In addition to the brainwork,
Harrison said each of the class
es offers an early glimpse at
future jobs.
“Kids love video games and
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playing them, but there’s a
whole career in them,” she said,
“They can design them,
(4 They kind of learn the
basics of what’s involved in the
career and what are they skills
they need. They get some back
ground so they can make that
choice, 55
Other classes offered
include 3-dimensional creation,
basic programming, computer
creation, graphic design, digital
electronics, robotics and Web
design.
Glenn encouraged parents to
embrace the concept that fifth-
graders can build computers.
M Don’t be surprised by the
capabilities of our younger gen
eration,” he said.
One such tech-savvy student
is Ian Trapp, a rising eighth
grader at Vickery Creek Middle
School.
For the past three years, he
and friend Graham Wright have
taken programming, game
design and Photoshop classes
together.
u It’s pretty cool,” said Trapp,
13. “If you like computers and
you like to work with comput
ers, it’s something that’s pretty
fun to do.
They also like navigating a
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college campus.
0 , It’s pretty cool to see what
it’s like and see how big the
thing is because you know that
you might be going to some
thing like that in a couple of
years,” he said.
His mother, Susan Trapp,
sounded almost as excited.
“Any child could do this
because they stay with you and
usually there are two teachers
in the room,” she said. “And
when he comes home he actu
ally teaches his parents a few
things, which is really neat, ■
she added.
Glenn said classes.are
offered at all Lanier Tech
campuses, but the ones at the
Forsyth campus fill up fastest
“because of demographics. ii
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• Interior design, sixth-12th
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Digital electronics, fifth-eighth
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• Game moding, ninth-12th
grades
• Graphic design, session 1 —
fifth-eighth grades; session 2
— grades ninth-12th grades
• Lego robotics, fifth-eighth
grades
• Web design, session 1 —
ninth-12th grades; session 2 —
fifth-eighth grades
• Video game design, fifth
eighth grades