Prague College

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While teenagers are fighting it out for scarce university places this year, Matthew Butler is living the high life in one of Europe’s most beautiful cities.

The 23-year-old opted to study in Prague after falling in love with the Czech capital while on holiday.

Thousands of disappointed teenagers are now weighing up whether to try their luckin foreign universities, after 180,000 A-level students were left without a university course this year...

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Prague College is happy to announce that the Underground City 3D XXI project willbe exhibited at the Trafacka Gallery in Prague from August20-22 as part of the Invasion festival.

We will present visions ofutopian future cities through the new Underground City 3D environments. Experience the latest user functionality developed during thelast few months and discover the Underground City virtual online p.

For more information about UndergroundCity 3D XXI just take a look here...

More information about the festival: www.invaze.tk www.trafacka.net www.facebook.com

ThisUCXXI workshop will consist of a special learning and experimental lab,including “3D game engine creation and customization”. Tutorial sessions at the Prague College Studios are from August 9 to 27, 9.30am to 1.00pm daily.

Different programming languages like C++ will be presented, as wellas how to compile your own tools to display and control 3D multimediaenvironments using the open source 3D viewer Ogre3D, and how to usevarious tools for multimedia creation. In addition time will be devoted to learning more about 3D gametechnologies and programming, but also to experiment with new tools formultimedia performance and interactive installations.

Fore more information contact: marie.s@praguecollege.cz

Prague College is pleased to announce that it has been asked to join the Experience@Singapore program, along with Oxford, Harvard, MIT and just a few other universities. The October 2010 IDM event for Exerpience@Singapore is now open to application by all Prague College students in the Art and Design School. This will be a great week long event between the 11-15 October, where participants will visit a number of large corporate studios and employers, while getting an introduction to working and living in Singapore.

Selected Prague College participants will enjoy:

Opportunities to visit Interactive & Digital Media studios in Singapore (including Lucas Films and more)
Invaluable exposure to Singapore’s Interactive & Digital Media industry and the career opportunities available
A sampling of the exciting lifestyle and colourful culture that Singapore – a unique blend of the East and West – has to offer
Funding of airfare (up to SGD 1000) and half accommodation costs. All meals and transport will be covered.

Good Luck students who are applying for this opportunity! This surely will be an experience of a lifetime and may well land you a job with your dream company.

Contact Gavin Bird, Development and Advancement Manager at: gavin.b@praguecollege.cz for more information.

See more photos from the third UCXXI workshop in Prague!

Underground City XXI continues!

Prague College and Libat have prepared the third in a series of workshops titled “Creation and Implementation of 3D models and multimedia content in Underground City 3D Multiuser environments.”

This workshop is connected to the Phase 3 and 4 of the UCXXI project and will focus on the creation of the Underground City 3D platform. The laboratory will present an experimental and collaborative environment to help the preparation of Transart Festival in Croatia, 9th to 20th September 2010, where will be presented the first results of the Underground City 3D platform.