Local Tech Company Inspires Students to Turn Their Passions into Careers

Carney, Inc. Presents JAMtech™ 6 for High
School Students

Educational Event Inspires D.C. Metro
Area Students

 to Turn Their Passion for Technology into
Careers

 

(ALEXANDRIA, VA) Alexandria-based firm
Carney, Inc. is showing local high school students interested in technology—including
online gaming, graphics, computer programming and social media—how to turn
their passion into careers. Carney, Inc, a federal contracting
firm specializing in advanced solutions, presents its sixth JAMtech™ Saturday,
Nov. 17 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, VA. JAMtech™ is a hands-on
educational workshop that introduces students to innovative technology used to
develop digital games and applications. Participants
of JAMtech™ are then eligible to apply for Carney’s internship program for the
opportunity to experience working in a professional creative technology
company.

Expert programmers
and digital artists from Carney will share their knowledge with more than 50
students from 17 high schools in the D.C. metro area. Students will work individually
and in teams, designing and building components of an online game over the
course of a single day. At the conclusion

of the event, students will showcase their
work to parents, teachers, facilitators and fellow students.

"We are so
excited about hosting an educational event that introduces the talented
students in the area to designing and building digital games," said John
Carney, president and CEO. "As these students look to their future, we
want them to know that they don't have to leave this area in order to work with
the latest and coolest technologies."

“JAMtech™ is
designed with multiple capabilities and interests in mind,” said John Low,
Carney’s chief creative officer and one of the lead facilitators of the event. “There
are opportunities for students to work with graphics, design and of course,
coding, but the most important part is a curious mind and an interest in
exploring creative ways to solve problems and use technology.”

November’s JAMtech™
content will focus on the Unity game engine, a powerful tool for creating
professional-level games. “Unity presents a straight-forward developer
interface that allows students to get results relatively quickly,” said Low. Basic
concepts of physics, as well as digital gaming design techniques such as
scripting and texturing, are discussed before students begin their own design
and development work.

To facilitate
participation, Carney executives recruited area high schools students through
formal announcements to school administrators, meetings with counselors and
teachers, and presentations to individual high school classrooms. For a minimal
$18 registration fee, students receive a full day of instruction and guidance
from Carney technology professionals, a USB flash drive with the completed software
application, breakfast, lunch, snacks, beverages, a JAMtech™ t-shirt and a
Carney cube puzzle.

All participants of
JAMtech™ events are eligible to apply for Carney’s paid internship program,
which operates throughout the school year and summer. The internship program
not only provides students with a hands-on experience with innovative
technology, but also gives each the opportunity to develop valuable
professional skills and apply their own creativity and problem solving to
important projects.

Over the past two
years Carney has created a total of 98 new positions, including 17 paid
internships to local high school and college students.            

About Carney

Carney,
Inc. is a privately held federal contracting firm founded in 1994. Specializing
in Performance Acceleration® solutions in areas such as eLearning, human
capital, enterprise social performance and mobile applications, Carney is
dedicated to helping clients do more with less. The company is the recipient of
numerous industry honors including Brandon Hall and Stevie Awards for its work
with federal clients such as the United States Army and the U.S. Department of
Veterans Affairs. As a socially responsible corporation, Carney gives back to
the community by supporting local causes such as the Alexandria Educational
Partnership Scholarship Fund and creating a charitable foundation to provide
scholarships for the continued study of learning-related fields at the
undergraduate level. For more information on Carney, Inc., visit www.teamcarney.com.