Representatives of some of Brighton's leading new media companies have been helping children understand how digital technology can help them play, learn and be creative.
Learning to Play the Technology Way was a day-long series of events aimed at giving children and young people access to a wide range of digital technologies.
It featured contributions from volunteers from companies specialising in games, multimedia, animation, mobile technologies and sound.
The workshops were part of Hospital, a Brighton-based festival developed by Lighthouse Media Centre, also based in the city.
Darren Prouty, head of production at digital media company Victoria Real, well-known for its work on the multimedia surrounding reality TV show Big Brother, gave a presentation to sixth form students on working for a new media production company.
Victoria Real chairman Richard Daws said:
"We're fully committed to any initiative that aims to widen young people's access to the digital industry.
"These are exciting and fast-moving times and it's a privilege to be given the opportunity to educate potential future industry leaders."
Hove-based video games outsourcing specialists Babel Media and Brighton-based games developer, Wide Games, also made contributions.
Wide Games hosted a session to show the youngsters how games are made and get them involved in the design of a new original game.
The company has just topped the UK charts with its debut game, the escape-to-victory adventure Prisoner of War.
Yuki Sawada, also based in Brighton, ran an art workshop for children aged six to ten, based on the theme: My Frankenstein Pet.
The workshop got the children to use their imagination and traditional drawing skills before teaching them how to manipulate and colour the pictures using computers, scanners and software such as Photoshop and Flash.
Maxus Films joined children at Somerhill School, Hove, to make music and images on the subject of C60, the chemical name for a form of carbon discovered in the stars by Professor Harry Kroto of Sussex University.
Junk TV ran a threehour morning workshop aimed at scripting, shooting and editing three oneminute films for Quick Flicks 2002 to be screened at the Cinematheque, Middle Street, on December 12 in conjunction with the Digital Arts Development Association.
The content of these films was chosen by the young people.
Hospital featured a host of interactive, visual and sonic installations in a variety of gallery environments, including Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Fabrica, BMC Gallery, Mojoe and Start Gallery.
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