Andrew Chuang Saladin
(1st Place Excel)

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Tyler Millis
(1st Place PowerPoint)

Juliana Toyloy-Stanton
(3rd Place PowerPoint)

Kevin Dimaculangan
(1st Place Excel)

Academy for Technology Excellence - ATE

The Academy for Technology Excellence is dedicated to providing a rigorous and deliberate IT course track to drive competency for a Network System Administrator computer science career. This track is a complete immersion track of courses that allow students the potential to earn over 33 industry standard IT computer certifications.

For these certifications we find it essential that they are able to use and develop their skills with the actual software and hardware tools that they would use if they were working in that role.

We have:

• Computer Bench sets / Breakables
• Routers and Switches and Cabling
• Wireless Access Points
• A Virtualization Server
• Virtualization Software - Virtual Box to simulate real OS environments for installations
• Microsoft Imagine Academy Membership - Access user software for students to practice installing and configuring
• Practice Exams through Measure-UP and Certiport
• Plus, IT Certified Instructors from the IT field

Academy for Digital Excellence - ADE

The Academy for Digital Excellence program offers Web Design, Digital Design & TV Production courses that engage students in the digital arts. Students will gain hands-on experiences that will lead to the 6 design industry standard IT certifications in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash, & Premiere Pro. Courses you can take include: Web Design, Digital Design, and TV Production. We have a state of the art TV production studio complete with sound booth, studio cameras, green screen, and production editing software - Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Sound Booth.

Academy for Game Design and Programming Excellence - AGD&PE

The Academy for Game Design and Programming Excellence offers students the ability to understand the fundamental principles of game and simulation concepts in a project based course environment. Students will learn game and animation design principles, coding languages, and more. Our instructors are dedicated in using industry standard software and tools to gain students these amazing key skills. Students enrolled in the game design program will gain the skills necessary to receive ToonBoom Storyboard, Autodesk 3D Studio Max certification, Microsoft Technology Associate: Python, Java, and Blockbased Languages, as well as, Adobe Flash, Illustrator, and Photoshop credentials. Game Design and programming uses a variety of hardware and software tools in order for students to find a medium that best suits their need to create 2-D to 3-D games.

Tools students use to get the job done are:

Hardware:

• Wacom pen tablets
• Microsoft Kinect for Motion Capture
• Microsoft Xbox
• 64bit pc's with 21 inch monitors

Software:

• Game Factory for foundational practice purposes
• Adobe Suite - Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Flash and Illustrator
• Unity 3-D, Autodesk 3ds Max, Motion Builder, Mud Box
• Various Freeware like Alice, Greenfoot, and Eclipse
• Microsoft Visual Studio
• Toon Boom Storyboard Pro