Media Design School have launched a series of weekend workshops that are designed to address the increasing demand for
short courses in coding, game development, user experience, social media community management and digital design in New
Zealand.
These specialist workshops, which will be held at Media Design School's central Auckland campus, will expose
participants to an array of tools, tips, and transferable skills in the fields of new and emerging digital technologies,
including basic proficiencies in Adobe Photoshop; Adobe After Effects; Unity 5; and a range of programming languages
including HTML and CSS; JavaScript, Python; C++; and C#.
The first series of workshops also include a number of featured workshops with industry practitioners who are leaders in
their respective digital fields.
Tara Brannigan, Community Manager at Wipster and former Community Manager at PikPok, will be running a workshop entitled Building Your
Community on Social Media on the 19th September; Auckland-based director of user experience design agency Lushai, Matt Gould, will be running an Introduction to User Experience Design course on the 19th and 20th September; and digital artist Link Choi will run an introductory Digital Painting in Photoshop workshop on the 12th and 13th of September.
The Power Up Weekend Workshops will also feature a range of Media Design School's award-winning lecturers and tutors,
who come from a diverse array of digital disciplines.
Registrations for the Power Up Weekend Workshops are now open. Visitwww.mediadesignschool.com/power-up-weekend-workshops to find out more information about the courses on offer.
WHY CHOOSE A POWER UP WEEKEND WORKSHOP?
Enrol in a Power Up Workshop at Media Design School and you'll never just be a number. Our boutique class sizes mean
that you'll be able to work closely with our internationally renowned faculty and guest facilitators and gain valuable
hands-on experience over the course of one weekend.
In 2015, Media Design School was ranked among the top three schools in the world providing VFX/Animation and Game
Development qualifications by the Autodesk sponsored CG Student Awards - making us one of the best tertiary providers in
our field globally. Better yet, the Colmar Brunton 2014 Employer Claims Survey shows that New Zealand employers rate
Media Design School as the top tertiary institute for supplying graduates with the technical skills necessary to be a
valuable employee, meaning that the knowlegde you acquire over the course of the Power Up Weekend Workshop will be
relevant to whatever digital design projects you choose to pursue in future.
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