{"id":14597,"date":"2021-05-11T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/05\/11\/kaplan-singapore-and-murdoch-university-support-youth-development-in-esports\/"},"modified":"2021-05-11T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T02:00:00","slug":"kaplan-singapore-and-murdoch-university-support-youth-development-in-esports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/05\/11\/kaplan-singapore-and-murdoch-university-support-youth-development-in-esports\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaplan Singapore and Murdoch University support youth development in esports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">\n                               First private education institution (PEI) to support the student esports development platform                            <\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media&#13;<br \/>\nOutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 11 May 2021 &#8211;<b>\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaplan.com.sg\/\">Kaplan&#13;<br \/>\nin Singapore<\/a> and its university partner, Murdoch University, announce their&#13;<br \/>\njoint support for Campus Legends, an esports platform that sees the development&#13;<br \/>\nof young gaming talents in Singapore. Organised by the Singapore Cybersports&#13;<br \/>\n&amp; Online Gaming Association (SCOGA) for the third year, this is the first time&#13;<br \/>\na PEI is supporting the event. Students from Kaplan and Murdoch University will&#13;<br \/>\ncompete in Campus Legends, an opportunity to help aspiring&#13;<br \/>\nyouth in the gaming industry level up in terms of skill sets.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>To be held from 12 June to 8 August 2021, Campus&#13;<br \/>\nLegends is an inter-school tournament featuring two of the most popular esports&#13;<br \/>\ntitles in Singapore &#8212; <i>Mobile Legends: Bang Bang<\/i> and <i>League of Legend<\/i>s.&#13;<br \/>\nThrough the partnership, Kaplan and Murdoch University aim to actively support&#13;<br \/>\naspiring gaming and esports talent in Singapore by raising awareness on avenues&#13;<br \/>\nto acquire the skills needed to work in both the international gaming industry&#13;<br \/>\nand information technology industry. The partnership also offers a valuable&#13;<br \/>\nexperience for the students to showcase their talent in competitive gaming. Four&#13;<br \/>\nteams (two for each esports title), comprising five players each, will&#13;<br \/>\nrepresent Kaplan and Murdoch University to compete in the tournament. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Kaplan and Murdoch University recognise the fast-growing&#13;<br \/>\ngaming industry in Singapore. They provide relevant Diploma and Degree&#13;<br \/>\nprogrammes for students to gain a competitive edge in areas, such as games&#13;<br \/>\ndevelopment, software design and production, mobile application design, as well&#13;<br \/>\nas marketing and events management, developing ready talent to contribute to&#13;<br \/>\nthe sector.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Mr Joe Keen Poon, President at Kaplan in&#13;<br \/>\nSingapore said: &#8220;As Singapore ramps up plans to anchor its position as the&#13;<br \/>\nregion&#8217;s esports hub, building the capabilities of our human capital will be a&#13;<br \/>\ncritical success factor. Kaplan and our university partner, Murdoch University are thrilled to&#13;<br \/>\npartner with SCOGA this year, allowing our students the opportunity to&#13;<br \/>\nparticipate in this meaningful youth-driven esports event in Singapore. Asia, the&#13;<br \/>\ndriving force for esports growth worldwide, will continue to see the potential&#13;<br \/>\nfor the esports industry&#8217;s eco-system flourish at an exponential rate. Through&#13;<br \/>\nrelevant courses in areas such as games development, events management,&#13;<br \/>\nmarketing and communications, we are committed to doing our part to help local&#13;<br \/>\ntalent level up in terms of in-demand skill sets and stand out among the&#13;<br \/>\ncompetition as they pursue their passions in this area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Professor Peter Waring,&#13;<br \/>\nPro Vice Chancellor of Transnational Education and Singapore Dean at Murdoch&#13;<br \/>\nUniversity added: &#8220;Murdoch&#13;<br \/>\nUniversity is very excited to be a key sponsor of Campus Legends this year and&#13;<br \/>\nwe thank SCOGA for this opportunity. Murdoch is a serious player in esports&#13;<br \/>\nthrough our programmes in Games Software Design and Production and our esports&#13;<br \/>\nstudent association. We see a very bright future for the esports industry in&#13;<br \/>\nSingapore and are very proud to be playing a role in its continued success&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Kaplan and Murdoch&#13;<br \/>\nUniversity students in Singapore can register to participate in Campus Legends&#13;<br \/>\nhere: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/CL-RF\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/cl-rf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/CL-RF<\/a>. Registration closes&#13;<br \/>\non 14 May 2021 (Friday).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-05-11\/77448\/kaplan-singapore-and-murdoch-university-support-youth-development-in-esports\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First private education institution (PEI) to support the student esports development platform SINGAPORE\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Media&#13; OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 11 May 2021 &#8211;\u00a0Kaplan&#13; in Singapore and its university partner, Murdoch University, announce their&#13; joint support for Campus Legends, an esports platform that sees the development&#13; of young gaming talents in Singapore. Organised by the Singapore Cybersports&#13; &amp; Online Gaming Association &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}