HTI Announces Game Prototype Unveiling

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CONTACT: La Vonne Sexton
Hawai`i Technology Institute (HTI)
808.522.2700
808.522.2707
www.hti.edu


Honolulu, Hawai`i (7/7/08) - Hawaii Technology Institute’s Annual Summer Tech Product Designers, a group of Native Hawaiian youth ranging in age from 14 to 21, announces the unveiling of their game prototypes on Wednesday, July 9, 2008 from 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Hawai`i Technology Institute, 629 Pohukaina Street in Honolulu.   Midway through the work experience, Product Designers have been responsible for designing and creating new, modified or customized prototypes of games focused on the development of literacy in various subject areas.

Government and other officials, leaders of community organizations, family and friends as well as the media are invited to the institute for an overview of the literacy areas used as framework for game development, preview online computer games and play hands-on game prototypes fashioned by the designers in a three-week period.

Youth have also contributed to the creation of a game modeled after Monopoly that provides a global view of several countries for which the designers have become ambassadors in a simulated International Economic Summit.

Doors open at 5:00 p.m. and there will be light refreshments and snacks.  The overview presentation will begin sharply at 5:30 p.m. and the unveiling of the games will take place shortly thereafter.

For additional information on the Game Prototype Unveiling, contact La Vonne Sexton at 522.2700 x 26 or visit www.hti.edu.

ABOUT Hawaii Technology Institute – HTI is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Career Schools and Colleges of Technology (ACCSCT) as a vocational school serving Hawai`i since 1986.  HTI is also licensed by the State of Hawaii Department of Education as a private trade, vocational or technical school.  

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