A pupil who settled within the UK beneath the Houses for Ukraine scheme has been celebrating the achievement of a distinction in her Degree 3 Video games Design course.
Daria Sokolynkova studied at Stoke-on-Trent School within the metropolis centre.
She has secured a spot at Escape Studios in London, the place she’s going to go on to review idea artwork and experimental design for the video games, movie and animation sectors.
“I am actually trying ahead to increasing my expertise, and simply working within the business,” she mentioned.
Earlier than the conflict in Ukraine, she mentioned she had had a “actually chill life” however after Russia’s invasion of her homeland she felt she had develop into extra decided to comply with her goals.
Within the first yr of her course she realized English, maths and 3D recreation artwork and animation, persevering with with the latter throughout her second yr of research.
“We’re extraordinarily happy with our learners’ achievements,” mentioned Hassan Rizvi, the school’s principal and CEO.
“It is a significantly big day as we have fun the success of our first ever T-Degree graduates,” he added.
Ms Sokolynkova mentioned school had been an “superb expertise” and that her lecturers had been like associates.
“I discovered superb lecturers who have been having fun with and serving to you, they usually have been glad to assist,” she mentioned.
She added she was unhappy to be leaving her classmates, however was excited to be shifting on.
“I am very excited as a result of it is actually what I actually like to do,” she mentioned.
