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The inaugural Nottingham ‘Games in Education’ Conference E-Games League takes place on Friday June 24th at Broadway Cinema & Media Centre in Nottingham city centre.
The event features an open e-gaming competition for 64 year 10 and 11 students from city schools, who will be competing throughout the day for both individual and team prizes. They will also have the opportunity to attend a workshop about the skills needed to find a job in the gaming industry.
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Opening address by Mark Strachan, CEO of Entertainment Software Charity (ESC)
Workshops / presentations for delegates include:
Presentation by Tim Rylands, winner of Becta ICT in Practice Award, 2005
Hands on workshops in using ‘Stage Cast’ game creation program by Jacob Habgood
DoomEd presentation by Karl Royle of Wolverhampton University (www.blendcentre.org.uk)
Nottingham eGames
Discussion panel members include:
Representatives from Becta and NAACE
Andrew Burn, author of article 'From the Tempest to Tomb Raider'
Judy Robertson of Glasgow Caledonean University
Richard Sanford of Nesta Futurelab
Jenny Murray, Peter McConnochie and Rob Woon of Nottingham City LEA
Exhibitors include:
Caspian Learning - 3D games based learning
DESQ from Sheffield

Simon & Sarah from Gamezville, a Sky One TV computer games programme have been filming at the South e-Learning Centre. The fab pair interviewed children from Henry Melish school and Fairham school about there involvement with e-Games and what they have been doing whilst being part of the e-Games project.
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