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Centre for Arts and Technology Sponsors Next Generation Commercial Competition

Kelowna's Gospel Mission's 30k Club and the Centre for Arts and Technology Okanagan are offering Okanagan students and residents the opportunity to win a $12,000, $8,000, or $4,000 scholarship from the reputable school located in Kelowna, BC.

Ubisoft acquires West Coast foothold

Look out EA, your turf is being invaded.

It’s already the dominant video game producer in the new gaming hotbed of Quebec, but today Ubisoft announced it has expanded its empire to the West Coast with the acquisition of B.C. game developer Action Pants Inc.

Although just three years old, the studio has been ranked as one of the province's top 50 companies the last two years in a row, and has 110 employees in the Yaletown area of Vancouver.

Digital Filmmaking Scholarship Awarded

Born in Saint John, New Brunswick in 1978, Author and Filmmaker J.K Isaac has been a working artist for nearly a decade. He began his career as a full time writer publishing such works as the controversial fiction novel, An Oddessy In Hell Burning. The book has sold well as an on-demand paperback and garnered him countless radio spots and focus from internet based literature groups.

Hollywood Studios to Help Digitalize Movie Theatres in US., Canada

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- In an effort to realize the business potentials of digital cinema, Disney and other Hollywood studios have agreed to join hands with exhibitors in a project to digitalize movie theaters in the United States and Canada.     Digital Cinema Implementation Partners, a consortium that includes major theater chains Regal, AMC and Cinemark, announced the investment deal, which will install digital projectors and other needed equipment at 20,000 theaters in the two countries from early next year.

Vivid Dreams Bring Windfall Opportunity

By Kathy Michaels - Kelowna Capital News
Published: September 30, 2008 10:00 PM

French poet Baudelaire once said that a frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.  And for Okanagan resident Tylor Stasiuk, that’s a blessed truth.  Stasiuk’s passion for art has helped him overcome personal strife, and changed what could have been a disadvantage into a two year full-ride scholarship at the Centre for Arts and Technology in the 3D game animation program.

Tech Sector Salaries Highest in B.C.

By Gillian Shaw – Vancouver Sun
Published: September 17th, 2008

Salaries in British Columbia's tech sector saw the highest increase of anywhere in North America this year, according to the 2008 tech salary survey released in Vancouver today by the Human Resources Technology Group.  Tech specialists - covering careers ranging from software engineers to animators to marketers - enjoyed an average increase of 4.5 per cent in their paycheques, a jump that topped the Canadian average by almost a full percentage point.

Survey: 97 percent of American Youth Play Video Games

From CNN.com/technology
Published: Septemeber 16th, 2008

Katherine Graden doesn't really like shoot-'em-up video games. She prefers games on her Wii system that test her fitness and agility -- the ones her guy friends tease are her "sissy games."  "I'm like, `Fine! Go play your violent games. I'll stick with mine,"' the high school freshman from Chicago says, chuckling.