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January 29, 2020

Global Game Jam + Twitch Tech Talk + Scholarship & Internship Opportunities

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Global Game Jam Signup Code for IDeATe students

The Pittsburgh IGDA is hosting the 2020 Pittsburgh Global Game Jam once again January 31st-Feb 2d, 2020. The Global Game Jam is a worldwide jam event held annually where thousands of people beyond hundreds of sites all make games based effectually a singular theme in just one weekend. Information technology'due south fun! In that location'southward food! Camaraderie! Stamina! Y'all should join.
We take a very express number of signup codes for IDeATe students. If you would similar to participate, sign upward at fleck.ly/ggjcmu2020 and enter the code IdeATeGeneral (just copy and paste, the mixed instance is all goofy).

Twitch Tech Talk & Spotter Party

Y'all're invited! Come up learn how to have a career in gaming technology at Amazon at the alive virtual tech talk with Ethan Evans, VP Twitch Prime, Thursday, February 6th, 6 pm EST, Gates Hillman 6115. In that location will also exist snacks and surprise gaming guests! RSVP is requested. If you lot can't brand information technology in person, the talk will as well be livestreamed.

Scholarship Opportunity for Game Designers

Breakout Games, the nation'due south leading escape room make with 44 locations nationwide (including 2 in Pittsburgh), is seeking those who are interested in gaming and exploration that brings people together through fun, games and experiential entertainment. This semester, the brand volition award four $2,500 scholarships to support the didactics of individuals looking to pursue a career in gaming. We desire to help students achieve this dream through the Breakout Games Escape Room scholarship. Details surface area available at breakoutgames.com/pittsburgh. Questions tin can go to scholarship@breakoutgames.com.

Friedman Internship Program + Info Sessions

Are you lot interested in spending summer 2020 in Washington, DC, pursuing a policy-related internship? Attend an upcoming information session to acquire more near the Summer 2020 Friedman Internship programme:

• Wednesday, February five, 4:30 pm, Porter Hall 223D
• Tuesday, February xi, iv:30 pm, Porter Hall 223D

All Carnegie Mellon undergraduate and graduate students from any college or school who have a strong bookish record and would value the opportunity to spend a summer gaining immediate policy experience in a public or private sector in Washington, DC, are invited to apply. Graduating seniors are not eligible. Students are responsible for finding their own internships. Grants of upwards to$3,500are available. Internships unremarkably cover a 10-week menses. Applications for summer 2020 are due byMonday, March 2, 2020. Please contact Emily Half with questions.

Spring Enquiry Assistantships

Multiple positions are open up for undergraduate inquiry assistants on an NSF-funded project Smart Spaces for Making: Networked Physical Tools to Support Process Documentation and Learning. This NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) fellowship is for a part time position (up to xv hours/calendar week). Candidates are sought for iv roles:

• Design Research (skills: ascertainment + ethnography, co-design, interview, sketching, data collection and direction, qualitative research analysis)
• Technical Prototype Development (skills: hardware prototyping, fabrication, server-side programming)
• Physical Computing Lab Assistant (skills: hardware and electronics, inventory management, database management)
• Communications Designer & IDeATe Reporter: Conduct interviews with IDeATe faculty and students about Spring 2020 courses and explore students' documentation strategies and portfolio practices. Develop stories and spotlight student's project piece of work and process for IDeATe communications and dissemination materials.

Project Details:

The Learning Media Design Center is looking for undergraduate research assistants to aid blueprint and develop smart documentation tools to back up learning practices in artistic, maker-based studio environments. They volition work with an interdisciplinary team of pattern researchers, technology developers and learning scientists from CMU'southward HCII, School of Architecture and Integrated Innovation Found (3), the University of Pittsburgh's Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) and the Children's Museum. Students volition participate in pattern inquiry and technology development activities working with project site partners including Quaker Valley High Schoolhouse, CMU'due south IDeATe program, and AlphaLab Gear'southward Startable youth programme at the Community College of Allegheny County.

Students should have a 18-carat interest in inclusive pedagogy and the pattern of learning technologies.

The prospective candidates will piece of work with projection team members on:

• Blueprint Research : synthesize generative design inquiry, analyzing qualitative enquiry, facilitate visioning activities to inform iterative prototyping. We are seeking strong skills in communication and interaction pattern, experience with qualitative inquiry methods, and in developing excellent user experiences, and skills with synthesizing and modeling research findings and insights to understand the problem infinite and collaboratively refine solutions with the project team and users.
• Technical Prototyping: prepare working prototypes of smart IoT prototypes for deployment to three educational co-design partners. Nosotros are seeking stiff skills in hardware and software (Arduino, Raspi) development towards an integrated platform for context-aware documentation tools. Ideal candidates should have besides exposure to human-centered blueprint methods and feel in collaboratively developing, testing and refining solutions within an interdisciplinary team.
• Physical Calculating Lab Assistant: work closely with a physical computing lab faculty to study, sympathize and deploy a tool that integrates NFC tags with inventory management and other tools to create in-situ, open, community documentation practices to amend educatee learning on campus. Ideal candidates should have also exposure to electronics and hardware laboratories and experience in collaboratively developing, testing and refining solutions within an interdisciplinary team.
• Communications Designer & IDeATe Reporter : Conduct interviews with IDeATe faculty and students about Spring 2020 courses and explore students' documentation strategies and portfolio practices. Develop stories and spotlight student's project work and process for IDeATe communications and dissemination materials.

The Homo-Computer Interaction Found (HCII) kinesthesia mentor and Principal Investigator, Marti Louw, Director of the Learning Media Design Centre, volition serve every bit project lead and advisor with co-main investigator, Daragh Byrne, School of Architecture.

To apply:

Upload your Resume and a link to your portfolio to the following Box Folder: http://scrap.ly/2zKGsZk .

Note: Undergraduate students supported with NSF funds must exist citizens or permanent residents of the United states or its possession.

TEDxCMU Opportunity for Students and Faculty

TEDxCMU is March 28th, 2020! During the effect's 1.v 60 minutes interruption is The Expo where creators, makers, researchers, startups, and others pursuing wonderful ideas informally showcase and hash out their work with the 400+ attendees in an exhibit-style setting. This is a wonderful opportunity for IDeATe students and faculty to showcase what they've been working on with the broader community. We would love to accept some students and kinesthesia from IDeATe present! If you are interested, please utilise at http://bit.ly/tedxcmuexpo2020. Questions can become to Bennett Huffman, Head of Innovation for TEDxCMU.

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Source: https://ideate.cmu.edu/about/news-and-announcements/2020/january/twitch-global-game-jam.html

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