by Rose Urbaszewski

Rim of the World High School is proud to announce that its collaborative project with California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) has been funded as a two year grant from the National Science Foundation.

Instructor Marsha Halquist is currently working on a video game project called “Mythic” with Dr. Art Concepcion and Dr. David Turner from Cal State’s Computer Science and Engineering Department. The project involves Halquist’s 3D Animation class, and the gaming related courses at Cal State, where students have written and will code the “Mythic” video game, and the 3D Animation class develops the animated character models, avatars, buildings and environmental elements of the game. The university is holding regular communication meetings at Rim, and Rim is participating in the all day open house and collaborative workshop that CSUSB will host this year. Dr. Concepcion and Mark Chapman, CSUSB master student and game designer, have visited Rim and are extremely excited to have Rim students participate after seeing samples of their work.

Currently, the 3D Animation class articulates to the Cal State’s program with one unit for each semester successfully passed. Rim will be a pipeline for high school students to continue their education for completion of a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science in the California State University, San Bernardino program. This collaborative project is working with Broken Circle Studios to create internship programs for qualified students entering into the gaming industry.