Globaloria Student Recognized for Game Design Work at Carnegie Hall

Last Friday (May 31st), Matthew Samples of Tygarts Valley High School was recognized for his game design work at New York City's Carnegie Hall for the 90th Annual Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards Ceremony. Matthew's silver medal-winning game, Carl and Carly's Big Day, was created in Globaloria with partner Brittany Arbogast, who was unable to attend the events in New York.

Prior to attending the ceremony, Matt and his teacher, Mrs. Diane White went on a bus tour of the Big Apple and stopped by World Wide Workshop's headquarters for lunch.

Special guests to the Carnegie Hall event included keynote speaker Sarah Jessica Parker, 2013 Alumni Achievement Award Honoree Zac Posen, Terrance Hayes, and Usher. There was also a video message from First Lady Michelle Obama.

Over 230,000 entries were submitted for judging in the Video Games category this year, with just over 1,800 were awarded with silver and gold medals. The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards were created to identify teenagers with exceptional creative talent and bring their remarkable work to a national audience.

Thanks to Scholastic for making sure Mrs. White and her student were able to attend the event.

Here are a few photos from their visit to New York City:

Congratulations to Matthew, Brittany and Diane!

(post written by Iba Dawson)

Pick It Up

Brittanya5925 at Tygarts Valley High School has made an amazing hidden object game!  The art work in the game is very detailed and well done.  The game's name is Pick It Up.  The goal of the game is to teach people about the importance of recycling.  Check out Pick It Up and see if you can save the world.

A Fantastic Team Page by Keeb

Hi everyone. I want to remind you all that a completed Team Page is as important to the Globaloria Curriculum as creating your final flash game. A highly detailed Team page may seem like a lot work to complete, but it is definitely worth it in the end.

Today I came across a fantastic Team Page created by Team Keeb, students from the Fall game design class at Tygarts Valley High School. The three students (KelsiR0416, Madelynm0218 and Calebg1997 ) have a great looking, fully completed Team Wiki loaded with Game facts, links to educational resources,  various videos throughout the process of their game creation, an awesome paper prototype, and last but not least, a really fun game called "A Whale of an Adventure." (Play the game below!)

Check out their Team Page Here,

Great job guys, all your effort and hard work really paid off nicely!