On Friday, regional junior and senior level high school students will transport viewers into their personal realm of reality.

Students will showcase 3-D digital worlds, as a part of the Art and Art History Department’s annual Strategies, Events, Episode and Devices workshop.

The two-week event, which began June 7, was designed to give students exposure to a variety of art and design media and methods to help develop creativity in its participants, senior lecturer Mark Clive said.

“We wanted to give a head start to really talented high school artists,” he said.

The students are selected for the free program by art teachers from more than 30 high schools.

All of the students in this year’s workshop have a background in digital design and are some of the most accomplished students in the area, Clive said.

Workshop student Diana Vargas, who recently graduated from Lamar High School in Arlington, will attend Savannah College of Art and Design in the fall, one of the most prestigious art programs in the country.

On Friday, at the end of the first week, Vargas sat in the dimly lit art laboratory listening to music through her ear buds as she designed an abstract house for her group’s project, a twisted version of Venice, Italy.

Vargas, who primarily designs in Adobe Photoshop, said she was at times frustrated with the program the workshop uses, the 3-D modeling software program, Autodesk Maya.

“There are a lot of possibilities with the program,” she said. “But, being new to it, I did not realize how hard it would be.”

Returning for the second time to the workshop, Ben Harden, Parish Episcopal high school senior, said he was prepared for the intense course.

Last year, Harden’s group created its own video games.

This year, he is creating a digital world called Effluvium.

“I looked on my favorite words in my dictionary app, and it means the spit that comes out of your mouth when you talk.”

Effluvium is a miniature planet with exaggerated features. Each group member will create a robot that features their likenesses.

Harden said his bird is from the future, after the apocalypse.

The importance of the students taking their own liberty in their designs is important, Clive said.

“They’re artists, and they have to be free to design the work they want to,” he said.

Student will demonstrate their artwork from noon to 1:30 p.m. Friday in the Fine Arts Building Room 166 and the common area in front of the Gallery.