[Ukesf-scholars] Scholar of the Year Award

[Geoff Merrett]

Dear UKESF Scholars,

I hope you all had good internships over the summer, and are preparing to return back to ECS shortly (and managed to get a bit of holiday in-between somewhere!).

I just wanted to encourage you to consider applying for the Scholar of the Year award (http://www.ukesf.org/universities/scholar-of-the-year-award/<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukesf.org%2Funiversities%2Fscholar-of-the-year-award%2F&data=01%7C01%7C%7C63b07c3767c04250015808d73785a987%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&sdata=PI1thK%2Bz5ujm8F8yMsEVfjIxNqDk%2BAsVomlDXp1fn%2BQ%3D&reserved=0>), which I suspect you've already been emailed about. Deadline: 30 September 2019.

My understanding is that this typically requires 1) a solid internship performance where your company has been very happy with you, and 2) some good outreach/advocacy activities that you've done to help encourage young people to consider degrees/careers in electronics.

An ECS student has been a winner or runner-up every year except one (and it's been running for 8 years) and, in two of the years, both of the finalists were from ECS! Aside from the 'prizes' listed on the website, and the obvious benefit to your CV, don't underestimate the opportunities created by being a finalist and attending the TechWorks award dinner. As well as an expenses paid attendance at the awards ceremony, previous finalists have effectively been headhunted by the numerous CEOs at the event seeing as you're there as the cream-of-the-cream!

Also, I know you all have a commitment to do some form of 'outreach' activity during the year as a condition of your scholarship. Let me know if you can't think of anything to do, as I can probably find you something quite easily if not (that can or can-not include public speaking, depending on your preference)!

Cheers,

Professor Geoff Merrett
Head of Centre for IoT and Pervasive Systems<http://www.c-iot.ecs.soton.ac.uk/>
Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton, UK, SO17 1BJ

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