Time for a Break

Spring break has been long in coming it seems, but it has finally arrived. It will be a nice week away from school and classes for students and staff alike. We may even see snow next week according to the weather forecast but somehow that doesn't seem surprising considering the kind of weather we've had this past winter and even into the spring. The Game Design classes at Tygarts Valley are well on their way to completing some of their games. The eighth grade class is almost ready to present their action games and we want to do the team games if we can find the time to complete them at the end of this year and we do hope to do that. We have had nineteen snow days this year and seven two-hour delays to slow our efforts down in Randolph County, and it has indeed slowed us down, but we have made every effort to achieve our goals even with the delays and obstacles that have been in our path. Game Design II and III in the high school class finished their mobile unit and published their games. They had an interesting collection of games in this class, and we've moved on to the 3-D unit now. It has its own challenges and obstacles built into the course. It's new to each and every one of the students and to the instructor as well. But, we learn from each other and assist each other as the class goes through the lessons. It certainly is interesting and different from the game design that we knew from the past. We'll see how it turns out as we finish out the year.