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EMC Cross-Team Critique Recap

by Giuseppe Liquori Burlington, VT- This past week, numerous game developers and publishers proudly showed off their work to the public at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, also known as E3, each game and project at it’s own point in development. The EMC had its own day to show off its projects, albeit not to the […]

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Summer and the EMC

by Giuseppe Liquori Burlington, VT– After a long, cold winter, it’s finally time for summer and a quick EMC update! After a short break at the end of the semester, EMC work resumed mid-May. Teams dove headfirst into their projects: The Enter the Cave team is in the midst of developing its game for a […]

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Shanghai Digital Artists and Their Work

By Keeshawn Nicholson Before spring break, the opening of the Shanghai, China Digital Art exhibit took place at Champlain College Lakeside, right outside of the Emergent Media Center. The exhibit featured creations with strong messages and outstanding creativity. In this blog post you will find the masterminds behind each project, some pictures from the opening, and some pointers […]

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Take on the Challenge of the Ultimate Emergent Media Center Scavenger Hunt

Today is the first day of the Emergent Media Scavenger Hunt! For the next couple of weeks we will be posting clues on Facebook and Twitter – if you solve the clue and take a picture of your victory you could win a 20 dollar visa gift card to spend on anything you wish. Clues can take you […]

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Generator’s Birthday Bash

by Giuseppe Liquori On Saturday, March 28, Generator celebrated its first birthday! Partnered with the EMC’s MakerLab, Generator has grown from a “pop-up” into a dedicated makerspace with a community of over 130 makers and growing. Saturday was a celebration of this success and brought together this community to recognize this milestone. The Emergent Media Center brought some […]

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A Student’s Perspective at a Recent EMC Brainstorm Session

By Giuseppe Liquori Burlington, VT– A few weeks ago, on a snowy Monday, Champlain’s Emergent Media and Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry brought together business leaders, management professors, and students to collaborate with the objective to play with game design principles and co-create an online platform for the world’s first “Nobel-level” prizes for businesses who […]

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BREAKAWAY Member Mariana Speaks on the Impact of 2014 BREAKAWAY Camps in El Salvador

As an international undergraduate student from El Salvador studying in Burlington, Vermont, I never imagined that my 4000-kilometer journey north would bring me closer to, and enable me to positively influence change in, the youth of my nation. After the enthusiastic response from our partners, facilitators and camp participants during the first year of BREAKAWAY […]

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Student Spotlight: Giuseppe Liquori

By Keeshawn Nicholson Get to know the students that are the driving force of the Emergent Media Center! Student Spotlight features current students, highlights and what they’re doing here, and some fun facts about them. Meet Giuseppe Liquori. Giuseppe is a second year Public Relations undergraduate student and Peer Advisor on campus. He is from Springfield, Massachusetts. […]

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Freshtracks Recognizes Champlain College as Reason for Vermont’s Growing Innovation

By Keeshawn Nicholson You may have heard Vermont described once before as a place where there are more cows than people, or as a state that has a lot of great maple syrup. However, it is also a place where innovation is rapidly growing in a world where entrepreneurism is becoming more and more popular. Many of the socially responsible and profoundly successful companies that power today’s economy, such […]

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TBT – BREAKAWAY Team’s First Game Testing in St. Lucia 2009

  By Keeshawn Nicholson December 17, 2009 marks the day the BREAKAWAY team landed in the Caribbean island, St. Lucia, to do their first game testing. The renown free online game for ending violence against women had only one episode at the time, today it has thirteen. This trip marked the beginning of something great, a testing […]

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