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Amanda is leading the Mini Game Jam, a challenge where local secondary school pupils create games using Scratch – a programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.

Staff and Students from our Paisley and Clydebank Campuses took part in a real community effort to save the day at Lamont City Farm – installing a new heating system to keep feathered, fluffy, and four-legged friends in good health.

For their graded unit, our HNC Games development students had to design a game on a predefined theme: Scotland. After 10 weeks of programming, development, design and fine-tuning, last Wednesday was THE big day! The games were being tested by very challenging judges: primary school pupils.

After weeks of engineering, building and testing their own Model Rocket Cars, hundreds of school pupils from all across Scotland will race on the 9th of June at the Glasgow Science Centre. Mark the date and come to share the supersonic experience!

Wednesday 1 June saw talented Make-up Artistry students from West College Scotland showcase their work in an end of year extravaganza at Glasgow’s SWG3.

The Scottish heats for the prestigious WorldSkills UK event was a huge success for West College Scotland last week, where we scooped awards in each competition. Read on to find out more....

Staff at West College Scotland’s Greenock Campus Science Department have been putting their analytical minds to a good cause and raising funds for local charities.

William Hosie can balance 15 4-inch nails on a single 4-inch nail – but that’s far from being the only talent he’s got! He’s incredible drive to succeed, talent and passion for joinery enabled him to win the 2016 Screwfix Trade Apprentice of the Year Runner-up Award.

When former colleague Gordon Lyon needed help on a project close to his heart, he knew his old friends at West College Scotland’s Greenock Campus would be happy to help.

Local teenager Sophie Ayoubi has come top of the league with her design for a sport club mascot, in a competition supported and run by West College Scotland Students.