2022 

Congratulations to Liam VanHollebeke who is a finalist in the Game Exchange International Game Competition for his game entitled Plastic Island.   Liam is being recognized as a top finalist among young game creators from Bahrain, Israel, the United Arab Emirates and the United States. 

Games were designed to address topics related to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, including Healthy Planet, Human Rights and Sustainable Societies.

Congratulations to the following students who are National Finalists in Game Competitions

Games For Change Student Challenge

Aribella Wojick, Jacob Barnett and Avery Colucci, Daniel Pline and Hailey Pelc, Adam Moore

STEM FUSE GOT GAME COMPETITION

Hunter Schormack and Liam VanHollebeke

Congratulations to the following students who are National Finalists in Game Competitions

Games For Change Student Challenge

Aribella Wojick, Jacob Barnett and Avery Colucci, Daniel Pline and Hailey Pelc, Adam Moore

STEM FUSE GOT GAME COMPETITION

Hunter Schormack and Liam VanHollebeke

Congratulations to  the following Animation/Web Design and Game Design students who are finalists in the 2021 National Games For Change Student Challenge Competition.  Over 1,000 submissions from students across the country  were received and 6 Livonia Career Center Students were selected as finalists.  

These students will be awarded prizes at the Games For Change Awards Ceremony and one Grand Prize Winner will receive a $1,000 scholarship provided by Take Two Interactive.  Congratulations to all the winners!

Sarah Alfonsi- for her game entitled:  Seize the Day, Slay the Dragon

Jazmin Ross-for her game entitled:  Solitude

Michael Ledbetter and Dylan Diaz  for their game entitled:-Chad the Vegan

Andrew Thornton for his game entitled:-Animal Time

Eric Mianowski-for his game entitled:Pierre's Pandemic Perseverance

Shaqir Gjoka for his game entitled:  Endangered Animals

Congratulations to the following Mobile App Game Design students who placed in the top 10 in the STEM FUSE GOT Game National Competition for games they created. 

https://educate.stemfuse.com/arcade/competition/vote

Shaqir G-for his game called Endangered Animals-FIRST PLACE WINNER

Andrew T-for his game called Blockly-THIRD PLACE WINNER

Kaden F-for his game called Faster Blaster-National Finalist

Allory G-for her game called Self Care Valley-National Finalist

Joe V- for his game titled Isolation-National Finalist

Livonia Career Technical Center Students Sweep Game Design Awards June 2020

Nineteen students from the Livonia Career Technical Center were  finalists in the 2020 Games For Change Detroit Student Challenge.   The Games for Change Student Challenge is a national game design program that combines students’ passion for games with digital learning and civic engagement.  

The G4C Student Challenge is a Nationwide competition that invites middle and high school students in Detroit and throughout the United States to create games about issues impacting their communities.  This year, winning games were celebrated at a Virtual Awards ceremony.

G4C deployed professionals from the games, technology, innovation, and digital media industries to work directly with students and provided hands on support, showing, telling and sharing their experience paths to their area of expertise.

The 2020 Student Challenge Themes in Detroit were: A Clean and Happy Earth, Get the Party Started, Human Animal Bond and Designing Games For All.

Corporate Sponsors included Ubisoft, Take2Interactive, Two bit Circus, Truth and General Motors.

Congratulations to the Grand Prize Winner:  Eric Minowski for his game Pierre’s Party Panic.  Eric  received a 1,000 Scholarship.

First Place Winners were:

Nolan Hill for his game entitled Companion Rescue and George Belea and Justin C for their game entitled Help Save the Environment.  These students won $150 Gift Card to Best Buy and a game from Ubisoft.

Other Livonia Career Technical Center finalists include: Darien Reames and E.J. Beyers “Mission Smoke”, Zeinab Sleiman and Sarah Reed, “Cigar Dash”, Lucas Burr, “Know the cost”, Hamed Emari, Andrew Thornton and Derek Anderson “Slime Time”, Alexander Brandt, “The Box-An Inclusive Experience”, Brian Donaldson and Ali Chedid, “A More Perfect Union”, Kelly Wong “Spring Day Cafe”, Tyler Franklin and Ryan Tarlo, “CATastrophe”,  and Patrick Jary, “Dogs of War.”  All finalists were awarded a $50 Best Buy Gift Certificate.

Games can be played at http://www.gamesforchange.org/studentchallenge/

 STEM FUSE Got Game Competition  2020

Congratulations to the Livonia Career Technical Center’s Game Design students, who have been recognized as finalists in the STEM FUSE Fall 2019 Got Game Competition.  

6 of the 12 Finalists in this National Game competition are Livonia Career Technical Center’s students. Students programmed the games using Construct 3.

Livonia Career Technical Center Student Finalists are:  

Traffic Rush, By: Jerome Stokes and Dominic Bruton https://arcade.stemfuse.com/contest/5426/play  

Defenders of Terra, By: Ben Blaga. https://arcade.stemfuse.com/contest/5381/play

Mission Planet, By: Hamed Emari. https://arcade.stemfuse.com/contest/5371/play

The Adventures of Casette-Chan, By: Matt Brown. https://arcade.stemfuse.com/contest/5356/play

Grapple Gallows, By: Eric Minowski. https://arcade.stemfuse.com/contest/5346/play

Flippy Puck, By: Barak Colvas. and Jakob Blanks. https://arcade.stemfuse.com/contest/5296/play

People's Choice Award:

Prize- $250 Amazon Gift Cards

Vaughn Robinson-Alumni    Alumni Vaughn Robinson