Alicia Fernandez Franco while fighting her fears and the fire

Pictures and text by Emilija Veselova
Burning oil should never be extinguished by water. But has anyone ever seen why? The 1st year media students did.

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First days in Finlayson campus and many questions in mind. From the left Marieke Claassens, Klemen Krulec, Benedikt Ruf and Jürgen Rudigier

Story: Maša Pelc
Information on information on information.  It’s unpleasant necessity, but luckily there were some fun intermezzo activities to brake the boringness.

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From  MindTrek Awars ceremony 2010, Ubimedia award winners

Two MindTrek Competitions open for entries
LaunchPad and Indie Games Awards submission deadline has been extended until September 5. An extra chance to get your application in, and if you'd like, to update your already submitted entry!

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The producer of Change of State, Mikko Helmanen, after the winning ceremony Photo: Jussi Sandhu

Story: Jussi Sandhu
English translation: Salla Lehtikangas

Blue Sea Film Festival was held at Rauma for the 18th time on 19.-21.8.2011. Six TTVO (School of Art&Media) films were competing in the student series of the Baltic Herring short film competition. "Change of State" (Muutos meitä johtaa), a TTVO thesis film which opened it's festival tour at Rauma, won the first place in the student series as well as the prize of the best short film in the entire festival, the Golden Baltic Herring.

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Story: Emma Kiiski
Translation Douglas Symon

There were the most people in the booth area during the pauses in GDC

This years Game Developer Conference Europe and GamesCom guest lists included three students from our very own Degree programme in Media.  By winning the, Nokia sponsored, Demola organised mobile concept competition (read story) we were able to choose any conference in Europe to visit!  Our choice was GDC Europe 2011 and the affiliated GamesCom trade event that were held during the same week in Cologne, Germany.

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Suvi Hokkanen - the 2011 IMP Mölkky Open Champ

The traditional IMP Mölkky Open Championship rounded up the first week programme of the new TAMK Media students followed by an evening party with other new Art&Media students from the Film&TV and Fine Arts programmes.

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Our new students started today, our building is filled with excitement, questions and joy.

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Story: Emma Kiiski
TAMK participated in the biggest game party in the country with few enthusiastic students from both Teiskontie and Finlayson. We got our stuff in the Hartwall arena and had a stand for everyone to come to ask about TAMK and what we are studying and look what we have been doing (game projects etc). For me personally this was the first time in Assembly so everything was new and exciting!

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