In June, Murrell Dobbins Career & Technical Education High School hosted a Gaming Seminar and Competition. Presentations included Dobbins’ student Promise Knight demonstrating how he develops games using flowlab.io.
![promise knight Promise Knight standing with a microphone in front of his presentation on developing a game](https://www.philasd.org/cte/wp-content/uploads/sites/155/2022/07/promise-knight-scaled.jpg)
Peter Howells, Staff Software Engineer for Riot Games gave a virtual presentation about what it takes to develop games and walked students through his journey as a software engineer and developer, how to get into gaming, and the future prospects of esports.
![riot presentation Peter Howells giving a presentation on how to get into game development](https://www.philasd.org/cte/wp-content/uploads/sites/155/2022/07/riot-presentation.png)
Professor Enongo Lumumba shared her journey into the world of game audio as a featured artist, music supervisor, and sound designer and lead an audio gaming workshop where students paired music and SFX with a particular game scene.
![Audio Gaming Seminar a screenshot of one of Professor Enongo's presentation on game audio design. The slide is titled 8-bit sound and contains an image from an older video game](https://www.philasd.org/cte/wp-content/uploads/sites/155/2022/07/Audio-Gaming-Seminar.jpg)
Kenny Tribbett and Ashlee Cooper of Droneversity lead an in person seminar showing students the ins and outs of being certified as a drone operator and what it takes to get a job as a licensed drone pilot. Students had the opportunity to practice their drone flying skills on an obstacle course set up in Dobbins’ gym.
Finally, Sports Marketing teacher Mr. Cobbs ran an e-gaming competition with students.