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Video Game Scholarships
The ESA Foundation has established a video game design scholarship to help educate and train the next generation of video game makers.
“Positions in our industry are high-paying jobs with a remarkable potential to inspire and entertain millions of Americans. We hope these scholarships will encourage students to pursue careers in this growing and lucrative field,” said Michael Gallagher, president and CEO of the ESA, which represents U.S. computer and game publishers. “We offer this program to help create our industry’s next generation who will boost the industry’s creative capital with new and unique approaches.”
The program assists women and minority students who plan to continue their education in fields supporting video game development, including graphic design, computer science, animation or programming, digital entertainment or software engineering. Scholarships are offered each year for full-time study at accredited four-year colleges and universities. The ESA Foundation plans to award 15 scholarships of $3,000 each to students for the 2008-09 academic year.
More colleges are offering video game design as a major, which might seem odd to some parents, but film study is universally accepted as a college degree. The scholarship makes available some $45,000 for women and minority applicants alone. Full-time undergraduate students can apply online for a $3,000 scholarship here, but must do so by May 15, 2008.
Posted in: The Artful Gamer
