The World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) is a contest for youth-led online projects supporting the implementation of the UN Millennium Goals.

Sideline (Sivutyö) is strong and topical story about a female student that drifts to be a prostitute. It’s a 13 minute short fiction movie, shot on 16mm film. The movie is a production of TAMK School of Art and Media, written and directed by Maria Kaurismäki. Sideline is the graduation work for Maria Kaurismäki, Emilia Howells, Jouko Piipponen, Jussi Lindgren and Johanna Harmaala.

Score, the game development club operating under TAMK's student union and from Finlayson, has recently published their new website. The visual design has been revised and the content has been updated. The site also states that there will be more sections in the near future. The site is run with the help of WordPress, the free, open-source content management system.

Juho Hartikainen
Score President

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Is your plan to be in the position of Animator, Art Director, Concept Designer, Game Artist, Graphic Designer, Project Manager, Producer, UI Designer, Web Designer or Web Programmer?

TAMK University of Applied Sciences is international. There are 175 degree students from 45 countries studying at TAMK. Next year there will be more, as the new Degree Programme in Media taught in English will start.

Colin Muir, Programme Leader of MA in Screenwriting - the Salford University and TAMK joint programme, is a frequent visitor at TAMK School of Art and Media.

On November, I, Riku Itäpuro from TAMK's Computing Centre, made a trip to California, USA on a combined conference and staff exchange program.