{"id":154,"date":"2018-11-30T07:25:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T13:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/saugamedevelopment\/?p=154"},"modified":"2018-11-30T07:25:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T13:25:43","slug":"igda-scholars-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/saugamedevelopment\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"IGDA Scholars scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the last day to apply for this IGDA scholarship. I know it is super last minute, but I just found out about it. This scholarship is not a college tuition scholarship, but a scholarship to attend IGDA , tour local (to IGDA) studios and receive individual <span class=\"mceItemHidden\"><span class=\"mceItemHiddenSpellWord\">mentorship<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/igdafoundation.org\/scholarships\/igda-scholars\/\" target=\"_parent\"><span class=\"mceItemHidden\"><span class=\"mceItemHiddenSpellWord\">http<\/span><\/span>:\/\/<span class=\"mceItemHidden\"><span class=\"mceItemHiddenSpellWord\">igdafoundation<\/span><\/span>.<span class=\"mceItemHidden\"><span class=\"mceItemHiddenSpellWord\">org<\/span><\/span>\/scholarships\/<span class=\"mceItemHidden\"><span class=\"mceItemHiddenSpellWord\">igda<\/span><\/span>-scholars\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The IGDA Scholars Program is one of\u00a0the most coveted awards\u00a0for promising\u00a0students in game development and related disciplines. The program draws on a panel of industry experts to select a group of students who are considered the \u201cbest and brightest\u201d. These Scholars get the opportunity to attend one of the many conferences that the program operates at, where they receive a complimentary pass, exclusive meeting opportunities, one-on-one mentoring from an industry veteran and tours of studios local to the event.<\/p>\n<p>Over its history since 2001 (predating the Foundation by a number of years), many industry luminaries such as Robin <span class=\"mceItemHidden\"><span class=\"mceItemHiddenSpellWord\">Hunicke<\/span><\/span>, Scott Jon Siegel and Whitney Hills have been recipients of the once-in-a-lifetime experience of being an IGDA Scholar.<\/p>\n<p>The IGDA Foundation is proud to organize\u00a0the IGDA Scholars Program, and enable students in fields covering the full spectrum of game development to have an incredible, once in a lifetime experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the last day to apply for this IGDA scholarship. I know it is super last minute, but I just found out about it. This scholarship is not a college tuition scholarship, but a scholarship to attend IGDA , tour local (to IGDA) studios and receive individual mentorship. http:\/\/igdafoundation.org\/scholarships\/igda-scholars\/ &#8220;The IGDA Scholars Program is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,51],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-conferences","7":"category-scholarships","9":"no-featured-image"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/saugamedevelopment\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/saugamedevelopment\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/saugamedevelopment\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/saugamedevelopment\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/saugamedevelopment\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/saugamedevelopment\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/saugamedevelopment\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/saugamedevelopment\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/saugamedevelopment\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saumag.edu\/saugamedevelopment\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}