Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin / Mr. Bohmann
10:05 Attendance
10:10 Welcome and Introduction
Welcome all to Step Up Day for the CAWD class of 2025!
Our expectations for the day:
- Drinks / food / bathrooms / lunch
- Interview day / we are interviewing each other
- Today you will practice the roles of:
- Traditional Artist
- 3D Modeler
- Game Level Designer
- Web Designer
- Staying on task
- Getting a photo of you for our admissions meetings tomorrow
- Afternoon writing, math, and language survey
- At the end of the day you are going to leave everything open (software) and turned on (computer) when you leave so we can look at your work product individually.
10:15 Traditional Art Exercise: “The Curve” (15 minutes)
- No right or wrong way to do this, just be creative
- Make sure to sign your name in the corner so we know who is who’s
10:35 3D Asset Creation
This morning we are going to work in Blender (free to download – you own full commercial rights to anything you create).
We are going to work on building some 3D Assets for a low poly video game level we will build later this morning.
11:30 Morning Bathroom Break (5 minutes)
11:35 3D Level Design
We are now going to work in Unreal Engine 5 (free to download) to build a micro outdoor level utilizing the 3D assets we built this morning.
12:25 Lunch (30 minutes)
- No food in the room / eat in the Cafe.
- You are welcome to return to the room when you have finished eating and work / hang out.
12:55 Attendance
1:00 Web Design
What is Web Design: Web design is essentially the act of working with a creative team or creative people to combine writing and graphical elements to create a compelling message online.
We know this better as a web page!
Web Pages are created using code. Specifically, HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- HTML forms the structure of webpages
- CSS creates the style, look and graphical elements that make the page appealing to look at
- JS (know as JavaScript) creates the interactivity of a webpage
Let’s check out a webpage together to get a better idea. Sample Page
Today we’ll create our own Profile Web Page and learn a bit about web coding.
To write code, we’ll use a code editor. CAWD’s code editor of choice is free – Visual Studio Code
1:55 Afternoon Bathroom Break (5 minutes)
2:00 Blender Challenge: Castle!
2:20 Writing Sample / Language Survey
Clear & effective communication is import to our industries. To wrap up our Step Up Day experience we are going to all receive a packet to get a bit more information about you.
This packet has 3 parts:
- Respond to the prompt “How is the tech center going to help you reach your goals?“
- Respond to the prompt “Write about your favorite thing / activity / person / place“
- Fill out a very quick home language survey
When complete you have the remainder of the time to explore the programs, ask questions, etc.
2:40 Dismissal / Walk to the bus
