Work placement / support for college students (Watford, UK)

General (non-technical) K-12 / University
#1

I teach college based students simple games programming using Corona SDK on Windows based platform and would like to linkup with “real” developers to give students some help and advice over a period of time. The link could develop into any area but my students would appreciate links with game developers and I would expect the assignment work the students produce to be of a very high quality.

Could you offer a few hours of your expertise over a period of time?
Could you be a “sponsor” or offer a work placement for a few weeks to either a student or member of staff to enable their skills to improve?
Do you know anyone who could help?

I look forward to hearing from the community.

#2

Is there no one out there developing apps that can help the next generation. If you cannot help directly is there a chance that you know of a company that might be able to help? I am looking for pointers not handouts! I have studnets that wish to enter the programming/games field of the industry and I would like to show them what it is really like. Cleo Whittington came for a day this year and I had comments such as “Awesome” from my students. They were “over the moon” that a developer would take time and actually look and talk to them and give an honest opinion - my appreciation goes out to her for the time and effort. Maybe the Corona Labs staff could give me some pointers of where to look?

#3

Let me ask around.

#4

Hi Robert.H,

I’ll contact our Ambassadors to see if any of them might be available as well.

#5

Hi again,

Does anyone have a spec for a game that I could use. I have never been in the games industry and have never seen what you expect to see as a professional games spec. Given what I am attempting to do with my students I would like to present them with a potetial real or “real looking” spec.

Do you have a game spec that I could potential try out with them?

Thanks for all the offers of help - I will get back to the emails but this is a busy time as assignments are flooding in as term is about to end and students are just remembering all of the missing work - I’m sure that none of you left work to the last minute!!!

Thanks :slight_smile:

#6

Is there no one out there developing apps that can help the next generation. If you cannot help directly is there a chance that you know of a company that might be able to help? I am looking for pointers not handouts! I have studnets that wish to enter the programming/games field of the industry and I would like to show them what it is really like. Cleo Whittington came for a day this year and I had comments such as “Awesome” from my students. They were “over the moon” that a developer would take time and actually look and talk to them and give an honest opinion - my appreciation goes out to her for the time and effort. Maybe the Corona Labs staff could give me some pointers of where to look?

#7

Let me ask around.

#8

Hi Robert.H,

I’ll contact our Ambassadors to see if any of them might be available as well.

#9

Hi again,

Does anyone have a spec for a game that I could use. I have never been in the games industry and have never seen what you expect to see as a professional games spec. Given what I am attempting to do with my students I would like to present them with a potetial real or “real looking” spec.

Do you have a game spec that I could potential try out with them?

Thanks for all the offers of help - I will get back to the emails but this is a busy time as assignments are flooding in as term is about to end and students are just remembering all of the missing work - I’m sure that none of you left work to the last minute!!!

Thanks :slight_smile: