Students share digital imaging presentation with Elkins Rotary
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James Liggett, an eighth-grader from Tygarts Valley Middle School, speaks
Monday to the Rotary Club of Elkins about the digital imaging class available to
students at Tygarts Valley.
ELKINS -- Tygarts Valley Middle School students challenged the Rotary Club of Elkins to complete an interactive game they created in digital imaging class.
Four eighth-grade students, in their third year of digital imaging at TVMS, created an interactive game that highlighted facts about Rotary and the club's mission to present to Rotarians Monday during the club's weekly lunch meeting.
Melissa Walters, digital imaging instructor at TVMS, said there are currently 100 students -- including students in sixth to eighth grades and high schoolers -- enrolled in digital imaging.
"Students start out in sixth grade based on test scores or teacher recommendations from elementary school. But to remain in the program through seventh and eighth grade, the students have to prove they are hard-working," Walters said.
In addition, Walters noted that the Rotary Club of Elkins helped make this class available to students at Tygarts Valley by providing grant funding.
"I am a Rotary grant recipient, and the funds that I received last year went toward the purchase of the software, which we use for our game design curriculum," she said.
Each of the four students offered a presentation to Rotarians highlighting different units the students have worked on and featuring some of the work they have done throughout the program.
Haleigh Wilfong presented Rotarians with the "Let's Get Real About Rotary" challenge that was presented to all members of the club and created by game design students -- showcasing their coding and creative abilities.
Brenlyn Swecker spoke about the "hidden object game unit," the first unit students dive into in sixth grade. James Liggett highlighted the second unit, the "action game."
Emily Tackett told members of Rotary about another unit, the "team game," emphasizing that Walters challenged the students to assume all roles of the "team."
"Most of you would probably think that a team is more than one person, but since we've been in the program so long, Mrs. Walters wanted to challenge us to see if we could take on all the roles and responsibilities that, most of the time, more than one person would have to do," Tackett said.