Take notes, students! Each year, the IGDA takes applications for its Scholars program. You submit an essay about how awesome you are, and the IGDA pays your way to a fabulous international game conference like GDC, PAX East or SXSW Interactive. In addition to that, you get all kinds of ludicrous perks like console swag, lunches with game design bigwigs, and studio tours.

This is the Untold Entertainment office. (Well, that took all of two seconds. Now what?)

This is a fantastic program that has selected at least TWO Toronto recipients in as many years (Arthur Marris and Billy Matjiunis of George Brown College). If you’re a student of a video game program and this thing is NOT on your radar, put it there!

Keep your eye on the Hand Eye Society, IGDA Toronto Chapter and the events calendar on the Ontario Interactive Services Directory to discover all the events you could be volunteering at or getting involved with.

PROTIP: volunteering in community video game events looks really good on your application! Jump in!