Spelman Innovation Lab

Supporting new ways to think, teach, make, and learn through hands-on creativity and design thinking at Spelman College

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Some scenes from HBCU Game Jam! https://t.co/YOLaUXGtLv

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Research day in the lab!

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Unleash Your Creativity at HBCU Game Jam 2024! 🎮💡 Connect with fellow student innovators and bring your gaming ideas to life. It's more than a competition; it's a celebration of culture, coding, and cutting-edge gameplay. Ready to play your part? #HBCUGameJam2024

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@SpelmanCollege Thank you so much for the shoutout!!

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Did you know the Spelman Innovation Lab houses a Game Design Studio where students learn how to develop video games, social simulations, historic reconstructions, artistic works, fictional narratives and other immersive experiences?

Learn more here: https://t.co/lPNbIG4EAn

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Co-director of the @SpelmanIL, Jaycee Holmes, C’2016, was highlighted on @abcnews alongside her brother, Ernest Holmes, a software engineer at @Google + co-founder of @codehouseorg; for their efforts to support the next generation of Black video gamers: https://t.co/kl35dcBMDj

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Last week, Kellion Knibb, Tori Darby, and Anthony Davis from the CodePath team attended the HBCU Game Jam at the Atlanta University Center and connected with over 100 students! 👾

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Congratulations to the student gamers who participated in our inaugural HBCU Game Jam. Students from HBCUs nationwide participated in a 24-hour hackathon competition to build their own video games. @SpelmanIL co-director Jaycee Holmes, C'2016, led the dynamic effort.

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#HBCUGameJam
This video provides some easy to find and use resources for those of you new to Game Development and Design for the 2023 HBCU Game Jam brought to you by Spelman Innovation Lab.
https://t.co/KSQb4ibRkv

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Students, if you're interested in gaming and game development, @SpelmanIL invites you to join the HBCU Game Jam 2023! Programmers, artists, storytellers and musicians are invited to participate and compete for exciting industry-sponsored prizes! Register: https://t.co/yXGbF3nSbI

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We deeply appreciate Rosemary & John Brown, and Board member Janine Brown, for their $10M gift to support @SpelmanCollege. This contribution will take us a step closer to making the Mary Schmidt Campbell Ph.D. Center for Innovation & the Arts a reality for our campus & community.

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Harmonic Design is stepping up our DEI and outreach efforts for 2023 and beyond. We're committed to creating a more inclusive and equitable service design field.

https://t.co/n7hH5tfSMo

#diversityequityinclusion #design #outreach #servicedesign

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A few more random moments in the lab:
@MetaQuestVR

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Another random moment in the lab. Can't wait for next semester frfr.
#innovationlab #HBCU #innovation #makerspace

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CALLING ALL HBCU STUDENTS 🗣️🗣️

If you are interested in game development, we invite you to come to HBCU GAME JAM 2023. We are inviting over 200 HBCU students to the Atlanta University Center to attend this weekend hackathon! https://t.co/RbGKybb2Ki

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Thanks to @BXLaunchPad We sent two students to the European Innovation Academy back in August. Check out Anetha Evans 's recap of the 1 month Startup competition in this video here. Shout out to Jaycee Holmes for organizing this opportunity.
https://t.co/dKhQJ6s3Vd

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The last entrepreneurs club meeting of the semester was a @ABCSharkTank watch party. Was a pretty dope semester last year. Members got to access a ton of perks and opportunities made available exclusively through the @BXLaunchPad. Excited about spring semester.

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We got Jada Mason game testing her Gaming Fellowship project made in RPG Maker.

Below Jaycee Holmes and Elizabeth Nguyen hosting a game analysis session and Mario Kart Tournament.

Lastly, We got Winter Jones working out a prototype and some calculations for her rocket project!

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Amazing Feature of one of our maker fellows Nichele Washington and her sustainable design brand Osun Cosmetics: https://t.co/ru5t8yHdHw