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MAKE YOUR FIRST VIDEO GAME: A 2D PLATFORMER IN UNITY
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MAKE YOUR FIRST VIDEO GAME: A 2D PLATFORMER IN UNITY ⋆
Make Your First Video Game:
A 2D Platformer in Unity
This workshop aims to teach the basics of Unity by creating 2D/3D models and interactive virtual worlds through fun game design. As AI transforms industries, this valuable skill serves as a gateway to the AI era, helping students excel in future academic and career pursuits, whether in healthcare, finance, education, or engineering innovation.
Workshop Survey Results
100% students learned new digital skills from the Youth Digital Talent Workshop
100% of students would recommend other high school students to attend Youth Digital Talent workshops
62% students enjoyed applying digital skills in creative ways
77% of students prefer hands-on workshops like today’s for learning digital skills, while 46% favor optional high school courses, and only 38% prefer self-learning online
Top 3 digital skills that students prefer to learn
Engineering Design 77%
Graphic Design 70%
Web Design 62%, App Dev 62%
Website Development Workshop @ PIA
Post Workshop Student Interview
Post Workshop PIA Interview
Post Workshop Student Interview
Post Workshop Student Interview
Post Workshop Student Interview
Workshop Survey Results
100% of students would recommend other high school students to attend Youth Digital Talent workshops
74% students are interested in joining Youth Digital Talent project teams to work on digital solution projects for nonprofit organizations for social good or small businesses for economic impact
Youth Digital Talent Workshop helped students:
87% learned new things about digital skills
47% now see being good at digital skills is really important
40% feel more confident about using technology in creative ways
For the digital skills that students prefer to learn
The top topic is App Development (67%)
Graphic Design (54%)
Youth Digital Talent is excited to partner with Portal Immigrant Association (PIA) and Calgary Francophone Youth Center (MJFC) providing a free hands-on Website Dev Workshop for Francophone youth @ PIA in Calgary on Jan 26, 2024
This workshop is customized to meet PIA students learning demands
Promote PIA youth who are motivated to learn further to join YDT project teams to work out client digital solutions
Building a Personal Website:
Intro to Applying UI/UX Design Workshop
Dec 30, 2023 @ Calgary Canada
Our workshop had an overwhelmingly welcome. By Day 3, we had to close the registration due to venue capacity. We had 52 students which doubled our planned 20-25 attendees; volunteers needed to add chairs along the side and back wall.
Instructor Nasrif giving feedback on student designs
Hands on learning
Appreciating Instructor Nasrif for freshly learned UI/UX design skills
Student sharing their designs
Workshop Survey Result
Our first designs!
Instructor Nasrif with YDT exec team
An impressive 87% of students are eager to participate in upcoming Youth Digital Talent workshops, although this workshop had to shift to using paper and pens as alternative tools due to unexpected challenge of 'WiFi-outage”, which is vital for interactive learning
100% of students would recommend other high school students to attend Youth Digital Talent workshops
Youth Digital Talent Workshop helped students:
87% learned new things about digital skills
73% now see being good at digital skills is really important
73% want to further explore and learn about digital skills
60% feel “I am empowered to use practical digital skills to help people around me (like my family, at school, or in my community)”
77% feel more confident about using technology in creative ways
For the digital skills that students prefer to learn, the result shows balanced and diverse interests.
The top topic is Web Design (80%), then Engineering Design (77%), App Development and (73%) and UI/UX Design (70%)
The top two preferred methods for learning digital skills are:
Hands-on workshop like today’s (80%)
Self learning online (60%)
Workshop on Dec 30, 2023
Personal Website Building & UI/UX Design Application
Nasrif Mohamed Nazeem is Product Designer at Teamshares, based out of New York. With a strong foundation in user research, wireframing, and prototyping, Nasrif excels in guiding concepts from ideation to launch. His passion for creating impactful designs, coupled with a commitment to continuous improvement, drives his work.
At Teamshares, Nasrif leads the design for Buyout, an internal tool that allows Teamshares to purchase small businesses in the United States and transition them to employee-ownership. Beyond his role, Nasrif mentors aspiring designers, sharing industry insights and contributing to the design community.
Youth Digital Talent
Building a Personal Website: Intro to Applying UI/UX Design Workshop🎨🖥️
Join Youth Digital Talent for a 2-hour free workshop with Nasrif Nazeem! Start building your own personal website using UI/UX website design, explore Figma and other design softwares. You'll learn about wireframes, user flow, and leave inspired to explore more in digital design.
👩🏫 Instructor: Nasrif Nazeem, Product Designer
👥 Audience: Youth aged 10+
⏰ Date/Time: December 30th, 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
📍 Location: Edgemont Community Center North Rock Room, 33 Edgevalley Cir NW
✨ Sign up now! Limited spots available.
⭐ Bring your own laptop!
SIGN UP LINK: https://forms.gle/nAs6ty15sTDpnhyR6
See you there!
Hands-On Mentoring
Partnering with ASIT( Alberta Student In Tech)
for hands-on mentoring with Jack Peplinski
on a real website dev project
Collaboration with Neo Financial
Business Tour @ Neo Financial
- Meeting UX, Product & Development Teams
We earned great support from Neo Financial to help us learn UX/UI Design with Guest Speaker Ivy Damian
How you can interact in the metaverse meetings Instead of zooming meetings?
Virtual keynote Speaker Meetup
Join Cullen Jennings, CTO Security and Collaboration, Cisco, for a deep dive into these technologies, taking away a new understanding of how humans interact in the metaverse
Webinar Learning Session
Incorporating AI has become a dominant aspect of digital transformation strategies. And there’s no hotter AI technology right now than ChatGPT.
How [You] Can Use ChatGPT to Increase Your Creative Output?
learn with Adjunct Professor Perry Klebahn at Stanford University and Assistant Professor Sebastian Krakowski;
take away the exact tips, tools, and techniques you need to use ChatGPT
