Up-Coming Visits Andrew Plimmer, Motim Technologies (Business Etiquette in International Markets); Prof. Rob Lindeman and Adrian Clark, HITLabNZ (Gesture Based Game Design); Sam Prebble, Weta Digital (Graphics); UPT Digital NCEA Project
How do you get a bunch of teenagers to do a research project on whether a mobile application can change behavior? Get them to make a swear app! Check out UPT Digital's The reCURSIVE Project.
UPT Digital Global Tour We're takin' it global! UPT Digital is planning a tour to visit a selection of cool tertiary institutes, some of the world's most innovative tech companies, a nd to promote our learning model in other schools! The project will be kicking off with a 3 day intensive for brainstorming sponsorship projects that tie in with the theme of our trip (Education and ICT). Places on our agenda so far are: Los Angeles, San Francisco (and surrounds), Seattle (and surrounds), Austin, Houston, Boston, New York, Rome, Geneva, Paris, London, Cambridge, and Oxford. We'll dedicate a page to the project soon! Watch this space! Mitchell Denton
UPT Digital Programmer, Mitchell Denton, has just released FSX Visualator, an exciting new application that enables you to see Microsoft Flight Simulator X in whole new way. This application fills the gap that’s been missing, having the ability to view all your flight data in one place LIVE. The application enables you to view all the flight data you will need in one simple place. Using SimConnect it allows it to run on local or network computer with minimal configuration. Congratulations to Mitchell for making his first $100+ through app sales in May 2012! Pyroclastic Game Studios
Three Year 9 students, Ashok Jacob, Finlay Palmer and Josh Cathro, have started a UPT Digital games development team called Pyroclastic Studios and Year 12 student, Jay Harris (UPT Digital Freelance Programmer), has been mentoring the team. They have created a game in Visual Studio, using the XNA Framework and are now working on porting the game to Android and iOS using Mono For Android and Mono Touch - thanks Xamarin! Awesome and Interesting Visitors
March 2012: Miles Sutherland from ESRI talks to UPT Digital about GPS technologies and the IT industry.
March 2012: Rony Kubat, a post-grad student from MIT, hangs out with UPT Digital in Cashel Mall. Thanks for broadening our horizons and helping us organize our projects! Our New Location
Thanks for the Licenses! > | Skip Login LoginNEWSUPT Digital is a games | web | apps development class at Unlimited Paenga Tawhiti high school, in Christchurch, NZ. We use Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Expression Studio, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Autodesk Maya, Unity 3D Game Engine, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Mono For Android, Mono Touch, Atlassian JIRA with Greenhopper and Confluence. UPT Digital has development teams, freelancers, and an enterprise team. Students are not taught in a traditional sense. They are provided with the scaffolding necessary to support their own learning, and industry mentors are an integral part of our structure. Our aim is to provide students with experience and knowledge to make informed choices about their tertiary study path, and to prepare them for a real world work environment. QUICK LINK: CLICK HERE to learn about our model and how we do things. UPT Digital Presentations: UPT Digital @ Microsoft Tech Ed 2011 in Auckland! > Click Here UPT Digital @ Tech Hui 2011 in Wellington! > Click Here UPT Digital @ NZiDev 2010 > Click Here
BIG THANKS to Nat Friedman, CEO of Xamarin, for donating Mono Touch and Mono For Android licenses to UPT Digital! Also thanks to Rony Kubat for the intro. Kiwi Foo rocks!!
THANKS TO OUR RECENT VISITORS: Brett Roberts, Wharf24 (via Skype) Peter Jones, ARANZ Micke Ring, It's Showtime! (via Skype) Simon Kong, The Greenhorn Company Andrew Plimmer, Motim Technologies Rebekah Wilson, WiFi For Humanity John Ascroft and Colleen Bardsley, Jade Software Hanno Sander, OneRobot Myles Sutherland, ESRI Rony Kubat, MIT Also, a special thanks to the Canterbury Software Cluster for being such interesting and gracious hosts.
We're delighted to announce our first test pod in 2012 from John McGlashan College (Dunedin)!
INTRODUCING UPT DIGITAL INTERNSHIP PROGRAM Congratulations again to JAY HARRIS who has just started an internship with local games developers Stickmen Studios!
OUR CUTTING EDGE MENTORS: Mark Finch, from the Graphics Group at Microsoft Research, is working on a very cool new Freeform Vector Graphics program. You can check out the video from their SIGGRAPH Asia '11 Presentation here and download the program to try it out here. You will need lots of RAM and a decent graphics card! Mark made this profile pic for Renea, using the Freeform Vector Graphics program:
UPT Digital and the Earthquakes: See the photos and check out our stories > here. LATEST NEWS : UPT Digital has relocated to the Wairarapa Campus at the University of Canterbury's Dovedale site. |
