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Email: lawson@champlain.edu
Phone: 802.651.5937
Game Programming Internships
Create a Highly Marketable Game Programming Résumé
Your Champlain Game Programming education will provide you with great depth in the specific skills that will give you the most flexibility in a changeable industry. Because you'll follow an in-depth curriculum in the Game Programming major starting in your first semester, you'll be qualified sooner for internships.
Champlain Game Programming students build remarkable résumés through our extensive game internship opportunities. Recent internship locations for Game Programming majors include Behaviour Interactive, Competitive Computing, iD Tech Camps, and Moment Factory.
Recent Internship Locations for Game Programming Majors
Internships at the Emergent Media Center
Additionally, students can apply for paid internship positions at Champlain College's Emergent Media Center (EMC). At the EMC, you can be part of a team that uses game technologies and emergent media to integrate art and code with cultural awareness, creativity, and communication on real-world projects.
How We Prepare You for Experiential Learning
We want you to be well prepared for your first internship, externship, or other fieldwork. After your first year of exploratory practical education, you'll be ready to work with your Career Advisor to take the next step.
- The Upside-Down Curriculum allows you to get extensive classroom learning and hands-on experience with industry professionals in your first year, which gives you the real-world skills and qualifications to begin taking an internship or externship as early as the summer before your sophomore year.
- Champlain's Career Collaborative will help you develop your professional résumé and hone your interview skills. Early on in your studies, you'll be able to show employers what you know.
- Your professors will become your reliable mentors, pointing out the strategic academic and cocurricular activities that will help you build your professional skill set and enhance your résumé.
Local and national employers turn to Champlain for college interns because they are better prepared to work in professional environments than the majority of their peers from other institutions. Many Champlain graduates receive full- and part-time job offers from the organizations where they first took their internships or externships.