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Wednesday, March 18th

Wednesday, March 18th

Class hours: 10:05 – 2:45
Mr. Bohmann | wbohmann@ewsd.org

10:05 Today’s Notes & Attendance

  • Last Day of the Week – don’t forget you are off the next 4 school days – back on March 25th
  • Today we’ll submit the final versions of our PSA to the Vermont Highway Safety Alliance together. Do not submit on your own. We’ll do this process at the end of the day today. The link submitted to the contest will be considered the final version and the one I will grade.
  • Food for Thought…. Which appeals to you? –
    • $21 hour?
    • $840 a week?
    • $3612 month?
    • $43,344 year?
    • Green Mountain Flaggers Employment Opportunity

10:05 Jump In to the VHSA

Today is the Last Morning we’ll dive in to working with VHSA work

First Looks PSA Highway Safety Alliance Monday, 12:45PM – this should be the first version of your project with audio, sound effects, camera work and lighting. Facts need to be included. Don’t worry about the duration – we’ll get that in second looks

Second Looks PSA Highway Safety Alliance Tuesday, 12:25PM -This should be an EEVEE render that is a tighter version of your PSA. Second looks should include materials, sound AND your facts, figures and be just about complete

Final PSA Screening in class – TODAY
We will submit the PSA per instructions in the contest guidelines
Today you will show your final render PSA to the class for your grade. After the viewing, we’ll upload to Youtube and fill out the contest materials.
Deadline: 12:05pm.

11:00 PSA or Pinball Worksession

Move to digital designs from your paper designs. The digital designs can be created in Illustrator, Photoshop or any other tool that fits your theme. Theme assets are required by Thursday, March 26th.

  • Start with a sprite sheet in Illustrator 400 x 400. Include your bumpers and flippers
  • Create a separate sprite sheet for graphics (arrow, cues, etc…)
  • Design a background for your pinball game in your theme. 1080 x 1920px.

Next week Wednesday and Thursday we’ll begin our new Pinball Project with your theme, populate the assets to the game and begin programming the game logic and interactions.

11:35 Lunch

tacos

12:05 PSA Showtime

Let’s celebrate by watching your video. You don’t have to do anything except press play. We’ll watch each video twice. If you want to share something you are proud of, we’d love to hear it.

Dropbox for Final PSA is on the dayplan

VHSA PSA Entry Form

Blurb for Video Description that you might use:

2026 PSA Video Contest: Focus Drives Your Future
Are you ready to make a difference on the road? This video was created for the 2026 Vermont Highway Safety Alliance (VHSA) PSA Contest. Our mission is to educate and motivate fellow young drivers to stay focused behind the wheel and eliminate distracted driving. Remember: your choices today shape your journey ahead. Let’s keep Vermont’s roads safe—because Focus Drives Your Future.

Learn more: vermonthighwaysafety.org

#FocusDrivesYourFuture #VHSA2026 #SafeDrivingVT #HandsFree #EyesOnTheRoad #StudentFilmmakers

This video was an assignment in the Game Animation and Web Development program at the Center for Technology – Essex, VT.


Title for your video: 2026 PSA Video Contest: Focus Drives Your Future

School Address: 2 Educational Drive, Essex Junction, VT 05452

1:00 Afternoon Break (15 minutes)

1:20 Independent Reading

book covers

1:45 Dismissal

GAWD Instructors:

Matt Cronin

Will Bohmann

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A little about GAWD:

Serving high school students interested in Gaming, Animation, and Web Development in North Western Vermont.

Students continue at:

University of Vermont Ringling School of Art and Design Northeastern University Rochester Institute of Technology Concordia University

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