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Campus Ubisoft is a Montréal-based school created by the French company Ubisoft together with some Canadian Universities and Colleges. It offer five diplomas focused on different areas involved on video game development: 3D modelling, 3D animation, level design, video game design and finally video game development.

Development diploma, named “Diplôme de 2eme cycle en Développement de Jeux Vidéo” (DDJV), is a second cycle university degree (equivalent to a master’s degree) offered at Campus Ubisoft by the University of Sherbrooke. This diploma includes courses in several game development related areas like computer graphics, image processing, digital audio, physics, artificial intelligence, object-oriented design, software engineering and project management, among others.

I’m glad to announce that I’ve been recently accepted to this diploma. I’ll move to Montréal next summer and I’ll start courses at Campus Ubisoft the first week of September. I honestly cannot wait.

I must mention the scholarship I’ve been awarded from “la Caixa” Foundation and the Canada Foundation.

”la Caixa”, is the Spain’s leading savings bank. Its main business is to provide retail banking services throughout Spain. As a savings bank, ”la Caixa” devotes a significant part of its net profit to social and cultural ends, which are channelled through ”la Caixa” Foundation. The Foundation’s primary aim is to meet those social needs not yet covered by public administrations or other institutions. It carries out works on many fields, such as plastic arts, science, music, social works, libraries, education or the environment. Among these activities, noteworthy is the fellowship program for further study abroad.

After a tough selection process among other 70 highly qualified students who applied as well, I’ve been awarded with one of those 10 scholarships to extend my studies in Canada. I’m aware that this is an incredible opportunity and I intend to seize it.

I cannot finish this post without mentioning all the support my family gave me, specially my girlfriend. I’m really grateful. I honestly couldn’t have achieved it without them.

Canada, I’m coming!