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Episode 4: Leland Sanders

Leland Sanders talks about coding, what the Rogue Hack Lab's collaborative environment means to him, and his dual life as an RHL member and an SOU student.

Tinkerfest: May 24 & 25 ScienceWorks, Ashland, OR

Episode 3: Austin Schmidt

Austin Schmidt talks about his start with RC, his future plans, and what the Tinkerfest experience means to him.

Tinkerfest: May 24 & 25 ScienceWorks, Ashland, OR

The Rogue Hack Lab is home to Undiscovered Game Studios, a group of area high school students collaborating on the development of their very own video game. They're not just talking about it; they're actually doing it. They're making rather than just consuming.

This is another example of how the Rogue Hack Lab encourages adaptive learning (learning on-the-fly).  As these young hackers/makers run into the many inevitable challenges along the way, it becomes obvious what skills they need to learn in order to accomplish the objectives.  That gives them motivation to learn the skills.

Here is a sample of some of the tools and skills I've seen them picking up along the way:

goal setting and prioritizing tasks

storyboarding

project management

Unity game engine

Git / Github

sound recording and audio production

write and record music

learning how to use digital tools to enhance or tweak that music to fit the atmosphere of the game

digital art and related software

videography

brand development

Over the summer, I expect they'll keep improving and continuing to develop and hone their skills.

Just a quick heads up that we've canceled FEF # 6: Intro to JSON which was set for this Thursday (11/7). Do not fear though. I will be rolling JSON into one of the other sessions. It's a very important topic but one that we can easily scale. 

By popular demand: my notes from the FEF JavaScript/jQuery workshop.