Hinkley's NEW Business, Entertainment & Technology Pathway Pathway includes a weatlh of Business IT courses. 2021-22 Future Course Plans courses are just being released.

Hansens Classes is a site connecting Computer Science, Game Development, Audio/Video and Digital Music Technology. The site hosts a list of current courses taught, as well as links to previous classes and include an online consortium of additional interests. The goal of this site and classes is to encourage more Makers of audio, video, music & game design.

Gina Hansen is one of four Business IT instructors at Hinkley High School, in Aurora, CO. This program teaches the fundamental building blocks of Business, Entertainment & Technology. In the 2020-21 School Year, Hansen teaches the following in-person courses:

• Intro to Audio / Video
• Game Development, Front End + Back End
• Intro to Band, Digital Music creation from home format
• Support for Intro to PC Applications

In a remote setting, all students have learned how to digitally organize a digital portfolio of their work through careful file management of their audio/video/graphic design skills with light coding. They should be able to produce a library of audio samples, video clips, character or levels artwork, planning documents and the beginning of a pitch they would market to a future company or employer to develop even further.

It is now Arpil and our Mac Lab is starting to be installed! That will allow us to be one of the top leading high schools running Unity for Architecture Design, 3D Design & Rotoscoping, Back End Coding ! WOOHOO!! Students will have the option to become Certified in Unity Programming in the upcoming school year.

In a second year of Entertainment Media in person learning, students can expect to deepen their knowledge of motion graphics, 3d-modeling & architecture, industry audio and film techniques, and project management developer build teams. It is IMPERATIVE students participate during Google Meetings held daily to best prepare them for a futures-based workforce, after the Pandemic restrictsions are lifted.

FORMER STUDENTS: Those from Previous Courses may still feel free to request letters of recommendation or even just check in via IG or Remind. Your teacher always loves to hear how you are doing. Also, its a small world and we are all connected. When its time for job searching, I'm happy to connect you to any connections I have in the field as your professional skills and qualifications grow or if you want to come back and share your knowledge with our community by talking with students and sharing your own life knowledge.