68 students, 4 courses, new training modules and insights, a new figure of trainer, a number of new partners: these are the main new features of the second academic yearDigital Bros Game Academy, which opens in Milan on 22 March, announced after the official closing time of Graduation Day, first edition held last February 25. The second year you open of growth: a number of entries almost tripled, most adults and students with more structured profiles, faculty, courses, extension of the classrooms. Students, including 67 from over 15 different Italian regions, and 1 from Spain, are expressionsthe evolution of the videogame landscape, a segment increasingly protagonist Italian economic scenario, which could open interesting job opportunities in our country as well as abroad, to talented young people who want to turn a passion into a profession. This year the Academy will be structured in 3 main courses: Game Designer, Artist and Animator 2D/3D and Game Programmer, but the significant increase of participants led to rethinking andthe extension of different aspects. In particular the course of Game designers will duplicate it in two sections, and you will see the entrance of Richard Lacey – Lead Game Designer–set up to assist, according to Core Trainer responsible for the new section, Simone Magni, Core Trainer dedicated to this course, in Office since last year. Maximum renamed reconfirms Core Trainer of the course of Artist & Animator 2D/3D while makes his entrance as newcomer Michele Pirovano,-engineerInformatics and Indie Developer-Trainer course as Core Game Programmer. Another novelty of the year 2016/2017 is the establishment of a new figure of the teacher, the Specialist Trainer, which responds to the need to integrate on-going training with training sessions focus on specific vertical articulated several modules, which will give students the opportunity to deepen some specific aspects of individual courses. Louis Carvalho already Core Trainerin the course of Game Programmer for the last year, this year will be the role of Specialist Trainer. ” The first year of Digital Bros Game Academy was for us a real success. The school has completed what was the main goal, which was able to concretely help the boys to enter the working world with a profile job ready, and the first positive results are already coming in this final phase, in which students are facing theexternal market, obtaining a direct feedback on the quality of their education and the opportunities that brought their commitment. We have seen grow professionally, as well as at a personal level, each of these guys, that through commitment and tenacity have shown us day to day that the Italian market has everything it takes to succeed on the international stage. ” Said Geoffrey Davis, General Manager of DBGA. “The number-truly exceptional – and the type of requests we have received for the second year we confirm that we are on the right track, and we were pushed to make the route even more specialized to meet not only at who enters the world of work and new developments in the market in the last year but also for those who have the desire or the need to get back into the game. Our model are the international companies as the bootcamp in US-both interms of student profiles, both in terms of training mode – that we see that we are getting closer, while retaining the characteristics that distinguish the Italian talent or artistic creativity and cultural aspects and design. ” Finally, the Historical Society continues with SIAM synergy, encouragement of Arts and crafts. In this framework have been incorporated into new mentoring activities aimed at supporting the development andthe acquisition of soft skills by students.