Over 50 (mainly high school students) joined us for our first She# event of 2017 held at Orion Health. We started the workshop with some ice breakers and team building games so everyone became for comfortable and familiar with one another.

Using the workbooks and USB’s provided, students worked in pairs or individually to create a game using the platform Construct 2. After a morning of writing code and testing the game we broke for lunch refueling on pizza! This was then followed by a presentation by our guest speaker, Niamh Fitzgerald, a game developer and Media Design Student. Niamh shared her experience and insight into the NZ game development scene – she became an instant hit with the students with a prolonged and very positive and interactive Q&A session.