Peek Behind The Curtain With ETC’s 2024 Fall Festival

ETC Director Derek Ham plays one of the student games with his family

On December 6th, 2024, members of the ETC and CMU community gathered together to celebrate the incredible work ETC students have done this semester.

Fall Festival is an ETC tradition. Started by Randy Pausch as part of the Building Virtual Worlds course, it was originally a stage showcase in McConomy Auditorium before eventually taking the shape of an invitation-only carnival that takes over the entire ETC building.

A guest at Festival enjoys an experience in the Green Screen Room

Festival spotlights not just the work first-year students do in Building Virtual Worlds but also the projects they created in other Immersion Semester courses like Visual Story. Second-year students also get a chance to show off the projects they’ve been working on all semester, in addition to the interactive experiences they’ve developed in courses like Experience Design.

Guests spent the evening enjoying the interactive experiences, games, student projects, and short films student teams created during the Fall Semester. You can learn more about the work on display on the 2024 Festival website, which also includes a recording of the livestream.