{"id":2212,"date":"2012-01-04T18:41:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T00:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2012-01-04T18:42:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T00:42:33","slug":"scholarships-awarded-by-entertainment-software-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2012\/01\/scholarships-awarded-by-entertainment-software-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholarships awarded by Entertainment Software Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Entertainment Software Association recently announced the recipients of scholarships for college courses in video game design and related topics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/esa-foundation.png\" alt=\"Entertainment Software Association Foundation\" title=\"Entertainment Software Association Foundation\" width=\"214\" height=\"87\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2215\" \/>The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) Foundation awarded 30 students with scholarships for the 2011-12 academic year recently. The purpose is to expand educational opportunities for aspiring game designers and impassion the next generation of industry innovators. Totaling $90,000, 15 college students currently enrolled in video game-related programs, as well as 15 graduating high school seniors aspiring to pursue a degree in video game design or development received scholarships &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s grantees hail from a diverse collection of 21 colleges and universities from across the nation, including DePaul University, Rochester Institute of Technology, George Mason University, and Drexel University. Additionally, this year&#8217;s recipients have academic and artistic concentrations in a wide array of video game-related fields, consisting of computer science and programming, software engineering, graphic design, animation and digital entertainment &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The wide spectrum of schools and concentrations reflects a growing trend among institutions of higher education to offer video game-related programs &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Generating over $25 billion in revenue in 2010, the video game industry has proven to be one of America&#8217;s fastest-growing business sectors &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameindustry.com\/ih\/item.asp?id=3745\">Game Industry News<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congratulations to the recipients!<\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esafoundation.org\/\">Entertainment Software Association Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Entertainment Software Association recently announced the recipients of scholarships for college courses in video game design and related topics: The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) Foundation awarded 30 students with scholarships for the 2011-12 academic year recently. The purpose is to expand educational opportunities for aspiring game designers and impassion the next generation of industry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-scholarships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2221,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions\/2221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}