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Newtown Student Participates in Game Studio Senior Show at Champlain

Alex Woloszynski of Newtown participated in the 2016 Game Studio Senior Show at Champlain College April 29.

Game Design, Game Art and Animation, Management of Creative Media, and Game Programming majors were all involved in creating nine different games that were presented to game industry recruiters from around the United States and Montreal. After the games were presented, recruiters had the chance to meet the seniors, try their games, and select candidates to interview the following day.

Typically, five to ten seniors are hired in the game industry from this event.

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~Founded in 1878, Champlain College is a small, not-for-profit, private college in Burlington, Vermont, with additional campuses in Montreal, Quebec and Dublin, Ireland. Champlain offers a traditional undergraduate experience from its beautiful campus overlooking Lake Champlain and more than 60 online undergraduate and graduate degree programs and certificates. Champlain's distinctive career-driven approach to higher education embodies the notion that true learning occurs when information and experience come together to create knowledge. Champlain College is included in the Princeton Review's The Best 380 Colleges: 2016 Edition. Champlain College is featured in the "Fiske Guide to Colleges" for 2016 as one of the "best and most interesting schools" in the United States, Canada and Great Britain. Champlain was named the #1 "Most Innovative School" in the North by the U.S. News and World Report's 2016 "America's Best Colleges and #14 in the overall list of "Best Regional Colleges in the North. For more information, visit www.champlain.edu.

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