Events & Contests

2008 Events

CA/CS Advising Open House

Tuesday, December 9, 2008
3:30-6:15pm
Faculty/Staff Dining Room
Campus Center, Rockville Campus
Talk with CA and CS professors about your schedule

2009 Events

Global Game Jam

5:00PM Friday, January 30, 2009 through 5:00PM Sunday, February 1, 2009
Universities @ Shady Grove
An international competition taking place at multiple locations around the world. Compete to create a game in just one weekend!
www.globalgamejam.com
More info about the Rockville Location

MC Game Day

April 28, 2009
(more details will be posted in March)

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UB Events

The following events are sponsored by the University of Baltimore (some are in Baltimore, some are in Montgomery County at the Universities of Shady Grove Campus). All events are free and open to the public:

Information Session
(contact Steve Purcell for more details: spurcell@ubalt.edu)

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Child's Play Charity
www.childsplaycharity.org
Donate $ for games for kids in hospitals.

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Annual Events

Montgomery College Game Expo Day
For the past two years, Montgomery College has organized a Game Expo Day to introduce students to the world of gaming. With industry and academic speakers and demos and live action games by students, this has become a popular college event. Find out more about our life-size Donkey Kong game (2008), our life-size Zelda game (2006) and our life-size Pac-Man game (2005).

Game Developers Conference
Independent Games Festival
www.igf.com
"The GDC is the premier event for developers in the interactive entertainment industry. With content addressing the breadth of videogame development on every platform, developers from around the world come to San Francisco for the GDC's technical conference sessions, the giant expo floor, the after-hours events, and most of all, to connect (and reconnect) with their peers in the game industry."

GDC scholarships & volunteer positions may be available.

E3
The Electronic Entertainment Expo
www.e3insider.com

Siggraph
www.siggraph.org

Games for Health Conference
University of Maryland, School of Medicine
www.gamesforhealth.org

Serious Games Summit
Washington, DC
www.seriousgamessummit.com

VG XPO
Pennsylvania, PA
www.vgxpo.com

The Women's Game Conference
www.WomensGameConference.com

The Austin Game Conference
Austin, Texas
www.GameConference.com

South by Southwest Interactive
www.sxsw.com

More Events
www.igda.org/events/