iACADEMY held a successful media day event in its Makati campus last 23 January where the deans and faculty of the renowned institution for computing, business, and design education showcased its world-class equipment, curriculum, and innovative approach to Game Development, Animation, and Multimedia Arts with the use of Artificial Intelligence, Augmented and Virtual Reality, and more.
Members of the media took notice that iACADEMY, the leader of innovative education for the past 22 years, won the Computing Track at the Huawei ICT 2023-2024 National Championship last December. A competition for aspiring game developers, the win had set the stage for iACADEMY to join the Huawei regional game development competition this April at a yet-to-be-determined venue in Jakarta, Indonesia
Boasting a 96% employment rate for its graduates, iACADEMY iterated that various career paths await its computing and design students not just in the game development industry but also in the highly demanded fields of animation, multimedia arts, artificial intelligence, software engineering, web development, data science, cloud computing, and cybersecurity.
Attended by Vice President of Academics Cecilia Sy, Dean of School of Computing Kiko Napalit, Dean of School of Design and the Arts Jon Cuyson, Dean of School of Business and Liberal Arts JV Padua, and Senior High School Principal Paolo Noceda, iACADEMY highlighted its milestones thus far in its non-traditional approach to education.
Furthermore, the event tackled the looming career opportunities in augmented and virtual reality. Following the demo, iACADEMY deans gamely answered questions from the media about the institution’s plans, job placements, and the career opportunities that await students after they graduate.
Kiko Napalit, Dean of School of Computing: “We can thrive in game development because number one, Filipinos are great at design. The designs that our students are making are at par with international standards. With sufficient support from the government and the private sector, iACADEMY will take the Philippine game development industry to new heights.
We will be at the forefront of game development with GDAP (Game Developers Association of the Philippines) members being professors at iACADEMY. We have so many talented students in game development and many of their games such as Bayani, Unspoken, and Far Away From Home are already out in the market.
The most recent competition we joined was the Huawei ICT (Information and Communications Technology) 2023-2024. We had one team join and they won the nationals. Now they are going to Jakarta, Indonesia, to participate in the regional competition.”
