'The board wasn't happy about it': Teacher organizing gaming festival gets back at school board members who vetoed the event's name

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    PHONE
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    Come up with a new name This didn't happen to me, but to a teacher of mine when I was a sophomore in high school.
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    My freshman and sophomore year, I was in my school's game design academy (basically you'd have the game design class, and your schedule would be formatted to have classes with other people in the academy), and my freshman year, we had a game design event with other schools in the area called Gamefest. It was pretty interesting, we had a smash
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    tournament, competed to see who could create the best Mario maker level, various concept and art contests, and the like. The first year went without a hitch, however it was next year that was the problem. The school board told my teacher (who also organized the entire event) that this year, the event needed to
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    include digital art and media students, to which my teacher protested, but the school board won, and told him that he also needed to change the name. So, he came up with the name "Gaming And Media Entertainment Festival" (that might not have been exactly it, as
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    it was a while ago, but you get the general idea), or G.A.M.E.fest for short. The board wasn't happy about it, but they were forced to take it as it described the event perfectly.
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    Sprocket_Rocket_ I like this.
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    brownh2oisbad This is as much malicious compliance as it is marketing genius. Mad props to whomever figured that one out.
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    VietInTheTrees "Improvise. Adapt. Overcome."
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    hecaete47 omg this is hilarious
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    wenadin Hah! I had a similar experience in a game design class I took in college. At the beginning of the semester, the professor had us pick teams and names for our teams.
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    My teammate and I were in our own world, discussing what kind of game we wanted to make when the professor came to us to get the team name we picked. Of course, we hadn't picked. a name, so I shouted out the first name that came to mind - Awesome Sauce. He accepted that name and moved on.
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    A few minutes later, he came back to us and said, "You do realize your team acronym is AS." I replied, "You're right! We need another S!" And that's how Awesome Sauce Software was born. He got us back, however, by adding Team to our team name, so we ended up having all projects on the website listed under "TASS."
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    Machdame Modern problems require modern solutions.
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    saxxywaxxy Media grad here, we aren't that bad? Are we?
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