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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear UKESF Scholars,<span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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!).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I just wanted to encourage you to consider applying for the Scholar of the Year award (<a href="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" originalsrc="http://www.ukesf.org/universities/scholar-of-the-year-award/" shash="MwcDn8PmcE17MrT7B2pyUg7JKKxeXtwuGB04S0nnYpMeMVSwBG2Ju93mM5LL237iIx39YhxBYb2xutUAcBb/lDblbfB0te2Iuhrz4HIOvY/zIcQhZbLcCnPpgoevV3qVrnSCi+8kC76gBcf0M7obR8XkHkkJjXb2R/TGN48hy20=">http://www.ukesf.org/universities/scholar-of-the-year-award/</a>),
which I suspect you’ve already been emailed about. Deadline: 30 September 2019.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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)!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0070C0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Professor Geoff Merrett<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0070C0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.c-iot.ecs.soton.ac.uk/"><span style="color:#0070C0;text-decoration:none">Head of Centre for IoT and Pervasive
Systems</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Electronics and Computer Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Southampton, UK, SO17 1BJ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:5.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">t: +44 (0)23 8059 2775<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">e:
<a href="mailto:gvm@ecs.soton.ac.uk"><span style="color:#0563C1">gvm@ecs.soton.ac.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgeoffmerrett.co.uk%2F&data=01%7C01%7C%7C63b07c3767c04250015808d73785a987%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&sdata=RtKu19Y5nQH5DklWbWxqwU5NvCDNqnZSjEPlntEtFt0%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="http://geoffmerrett.co.uk/" shash="vkTm5RCG/Tad8F5YVNBy4f6GPHAP2/F9q0d20ppuI+m5OP5nZiVvg2gMf+9ZYXWFtac/R5Z0B4+Y5irP5Jervkl3iQe+s0j3wXoxjImgIHOWiDC/OiHhXVqz7sC9eim4e/jnskgt5rW/4bKZgXy823kL6VUhuv+IgA+DCT7RZbc=" title="http://geoffmerrett.co.uk/">
<span style="color:#0563C1">geoffmerrett.co.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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