Mediatech Foundation

Dear Mediatech members, supervisors and board members; as well as the Flemington community at large. I’m off to Traverse City, Michigan to teach year two of a MA program for my alumni, Michigan State University. I’ll be back in Flemington on the last week of July. Mediatech will be in the able hands of Adam Neboa, one of our first supervisors. Adam is a student at Hunter College in NYC, and knows a lot of about sports and radio broadcasting.
Adam, with the help of CTR editors Bobbie and Tracy, will be running the Serious Game Testers Club on Fridays from 1 to 3 PM. Anyone with an interest in the latest games and game design is welcome to attend.

So what’s the exiting news? On Monday Night, August 13, Gigi Tagliapetra will be visiting Flemington. Gigi is the founder of the original Mediateca in Italy; and the board of trustees will be hosting a dinner party in his honor. Stay tuned. In the meantime, have a wonderful summer!  WB

Dear SGTC members.

We will meet at Mediatech on FRIDAYS, AT 1 to 3 each day over the summer. Adam Neboa will be leading the meetings. Membership is free.

Tonight’s SGTC is on. Please come and preview some new games. We’ll discuss what we’re going to do for this summer.

We’re still on for 7:00 PM tonight (Thursday). I’ll be in New York City today, so I may bring back some “first look” news of games in the works.

Note that I’m on a rather late bus, so I may get caught in 202 traffic. If this happens, I’ll call Mediatech’s switchboard at 7:00 to let you know where I am.

Also, SGTC will take a summer break, starting in two weeks, through the month of July. It will resume again in August. Please spread the word.

Mediatech’s air conditioning system is currently down, due to drainage problems. We’ll probably have it fixed by Wednesday.

Mediatech will not be open on Monday, May 28. Regular hours resume on Tuesday. Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

We just received two Wii programs — Mario Party 8 and Shrek. At our next Serious Games Testers Club, we’ll demo and discuss the genre of “party games.” June 1.

Tonight’s at the Serious Games Testers Club, we’ll have a first look at the Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean video game. Just a reminder that you must be a registered member in order to test games, but anyone is welcome to come and observe. Also, parents are encouraged to come.

Tonight we’ll have a look at Scratch, the new programming language from MIT and I’ll demo Marble Drop on the Wii.

Current members are Matt (10), Frank (13), Caleb (9), Ethan (11) and Matt (12). Check out Ethan’s review of Diddy Kong Racer, as a video!

It was a day of mixed emotions last Saturday at Mediatech.

It was Sarah Klingler’s last day as a supervisor… a job she has had for over two years. While at HCRHS, Sarah started attending Mediatech the day it opened. Sarah is known for her ability to control rowdy middle schoolers as well as her high score in Guitar Hero. Her little brother, Matt, promises to keep us updated. To recognize her service to Mediatech and our community, the board awarded Sarah with a $500 scholarship. We’ll miss you Sarah!