GBDA student Melissa Morgan is 19, and she has already worked as a model, voice actress, photographer and TV intern. In January, she added president and CEO to her resume.
More than a dozen local high school students with post-secondary plans will open the book on their university education Friday.
An eye-catching display in Stratford has caught the eye of the world's largest international conference and trade show dedicated to digital signage and interactive technology.
Last year, the University of Waterloo broke ground in Stratford, Ontario for their new campus grounds, the Digital Media Lab.
Christie® visual technology solutions are playing a key role in visualizing the University of Waterloo’s mission to intersect technology, business and art under the Faculty of Arts programs – a first in Canada – at its new Stratford, Ontario campus.
Picture this: St. Michael Secondary School students sitting in a University of Waterloo Stratford campus classroom, snapping photos with high-end digital single lens reflex (SLR) cameras, uploading them to state-of-the-art iMac computers, and processing them with industry-standard software.
That image came into sharp focus Wednesday as students from St. Michael’s arts and culture specialist high-skills major program and communication technology class participated in a day-long, hands-on digital photography workshop at the university.
When University of Waterloo president Feridun Hamdullahpur looked behind him at the towering Christie MicroTile wall at the front of the new Stratford campus, he asked a question that was likely on the minds of many gathered for the grand opening Tuesday.
“Can we watch movies on this?”
"The human interacting with technology"
Yesterday was a big day for Waterloo's Stratford Campus as the magnificent new building and digital arts facility was officially unveiled. Already housing two Faculty of Arts programs, the Bachelor of Global Business and Digital Arts and the Master of Digital Experience Innovation, the building is home-base to 117 students this year.
Three-storey-high fireworks kicked off the grand opening Tuesday of the University of Waterloo Stratford Campus.
Of course, like the projects and research that will be conducted in the new St. Patrick Street building, the fireworks were digital, displayed in stunning resolution on the building’s centrepiece, the tallest installation of Christie MicroTiles in North America.
STRATFORD — Can Stratford reinvent itself from theatre town to digital media hub? The University of Waterloo and some of the region’s biggest tech companies are betting it can.
The university unveiled its newest satellite school Tuesday, a 42,000-square foot campus complete with a three-storey high wall of digital “micro tiles,” audio and visual editing suites and interactive classrooms with touch screens on the floors and walls.