Tuesday 13 December 2016

We won a POSBOs


Last week myself, Mark , Jess (from Changing Futures) and a few of the Student Ambassadors headed to the Baltic in Newcastle for the POSBOs awards ceremony. An event that we held in June known as Game-con won an award for the best youth event in 2016.

The GameCon event first started in 2015 and was created as an event that students would enjoy running. Students Thomas Black, Andrew Smales, Sam Henderson, Rory Williamson and Student Services team leader Mark Lee devised the idea when thinking about ways to engage with students and the wider public:

'We wanted something that would appeal to people of all ages and be very unique. We are all gamers with lots of retro and modern gaming systems, so it seemed like the perfect opportunity to run a gaming event.'

Changing Futures was picked as a charity for the event due to their inspirational work with young people; particularly teenagers from the Hartlepool area.

'The team at Changing Futures were fantastic in 2015 and again in 2016. Jess Watson really helped us and promoted the event across the town. Our fundraising also made a big difference to their cause which was great to see.'

This year we managed to gain sponsorship from Hartlepool Domino’s Pizza, the college providing their Aerospace flight simulator and Teesside University Game Design tutors, students and Virtual Reality games in attendance.

We managed to smash last year’s total by raising a massive £208! It was a fabulous event and we couldn’t believe it when we were nominated for a POSBOs and the fact we won it was even better!!


We're already planning GameCon 2017 and this has given us the confidence to make it our biggest, best one yet!'


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