The gaming expo was an extremely informative experience for me, and hopefully my peers as well. I learned a lot pertaining to local industries, both gaming and IT, and what it takes to get into them. The Triangle is thriving with both gaming and IT industries, most notably Red Storm and IBM, and all of them are looking for new recruits. The requirements are also set relatively low, basically only needing a relevant college degree and some experience in the field. The most important session for my examination of my future career was the Path To the Parks, because it really showed off all the new advancements and frontiers in both IT and gaming. Unfortunately, due to my fathers profession in IT, not a whole lot of new information was passed along on that front, but it was good to see the station where someone was teaching kids how to take apart computers, that's a good skill to have. I spoke with quite a few people, each of which were very enthusiastic about what they were working on. I spoke with a speaker who was working with emergency response dogs, both training the dogs to work in they field but also designing vests of sensors to allow the people back at base a more in depth idea of the surroundings. Another panel was about small, extremely cheep rovers that you can 3D print, and another was about Bit Coin. I find it interesting that they had Bit Coin there, as it really isn't directly related to IT or gaming, but it is the largest electronic currency system to date, and it has a very large hand in the future of currency its self, so the panel itself was interesting, if slightly out of place. Also, the entire section on Robotics, while also slightly out of place, was extremely informative, not only on the process of creating robots and the effort that goes into them, but also on the possibilities for programmers, getting jobs in everything from IT to gaming to Robotics.
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AuthorI am 17 years old, and currently enrolled in Durham School of the Arts. Within the Game Design field, I'm looking to become a game writer or a programmer, preferably a combination of the two.
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June 2018
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