Educational Gaming Commons - Press Start

I unfortunately could not make it to the events this weekend, but two IST student organizations held gaming events in the IST Building.

The IST Game Design Clug held a Super Smash Brothers Brawl tournament Saturday afternoon. The president of the club said they had ~30 people show up to get their game on.

The IST Computer Networking Club (CNC) held a Counter Strike: Source and Team Fortres 2 Tournament in the Cybertorium later in the day. They also had approximately 30 people participate for close to 6 hours of gaming. The network club also designed and implemented a LAN in the cybertorium for the event, which included a stat-tracking server for both games so they could determine a winner at the close of the event. This is a great example of tying educational experiences to gaming.

Does anyone else know of similar groups that exist around Penn State? Here at the EGC we're hoping to get more involved with these student organizations and identify areas we can help grow the community.