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Sony Foundation Scholarship: Finals Fever
20 Oct 06
With football finals recently having wrapped up for the year, finals of a different kind were happening at Academy of Interactive Entertainment's (AIE) Canberra Campus.
Jonathan Pelling & Lorne Brooks from Irrational Games along with Alistair Phillips & Brendan Kirk from Micro-Forté and AIE Head of School, Neil Boyd, were on hand to interview the 5 finalists selected for this years Sony Foundation Australia Interactive Technology Scholarship in Canberra today. All present were extremely impressed with the consistently high standard of work being displayed and the attitude & enthusiasm shown by the finalists.
Congratulations to this years finalists; Jonathan Oppel, Scott Webb, Simon Keep, Michael Pryor and Simon Cottee who are all studying the Certificate IV in 3D Animation for Games and Film and are planning on completing their studies in the Diploma of Computer Game Development next year. Over 30 students applied for the Sony Scholarship this year, so it is an excellent achievement to be selected as a finalist.
This is the 6th year AIE and Sony Foundation Australia have offered the Interactive Technology Scholarship and this years winners will join a list of graduates who have been very successful in their chosen careers. Previous winners include Julian Harrison (2002) who spent time in the UK working on The Getaway 2 and now works for Seeing Machines in Canberra, Chris Chaproniere (2003) who now works as a 3D Artist with Irrational Games, and Georgia Patten (2005) who now works as a 3D Artist with BigAnt Studios in Melbourne.
AIE's Melbourne Campus will also be holding Sony Scholarship finals in the near future, so which this space for more info as it comes to hand. The 2006 Sony Scholarship Winners will be announced at the inaugural Games Connect:Asia Pacific conference in early December.
From left to right: Brendan Kirk, Jonathan Pelling, Alistair Phillips, Lorne Brooks, Scott Webb, Jonathan Oppel, Simon Keep, Michael Pryor, Simon Cottee and Neil Boyd.
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