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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear UKESF scholar,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I hope you and your families are well, and our UKESF placement hasn’t been too disrupted (I know of at least a few that have been). Please keep in touch with Joyce and the UKESF if this is the case, about
alternative arrangements.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">School/college students have had significant disruption to their studies, and are both missing out on being able to explore potential career paths, but are also becoming increasingly demotivated about those
which they were previously engaged with. I’m working on a project to create a ‘why electronics’ video to try and engage the next generation of electronic engineers, made up of lots of short (‘homemade’ lockdown) students clips – if you like, the electronics
world’s rather more geeky version of radio 1’s “times like these” live lounge (just with no singing)…
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I’d really like to get all of our UKESF Scholars (i.e. you) engaged with this, and make it a joint ECS-UKESF video. It wouldn’t take much of your time at all: you can do it in your own house/room, record using
your phone or webcam, and just need to answer a few short (1 sentence reply) questions. We’ll then get all the footage professionally edited together, and you’ll get a chance to look at it and ‘okay’ it before it’s distributed. If you’re willing to be involved
– please can you indicate this at the link below, and I’ll email you more information in a few days.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.office.com%2FPages%2FResponsePage.aspx%3Fid%3D-XhTSvQpPk2-iWadA62p2E9DViO7AyJAp_i6H9bgxeBUOTJTWkpLU0w1NDRaVkk0VkRUTTE4VzlRWS4u&data=01%7C01%7C%7C160f18dfd930458b3ec908d7fc03eacd%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&sdata=h8kRZJzr%2FpA%2Bo15XWv2kc48cpDNbO2vTESjTyWJW1eQ%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=-XhTSvQpPk2-iWadA62p2E9DViO7AyJAp_i6H9bgxeBUOTJTWkpLU0w1NDRaVkk0VkRUTTE4VzlRWS4u" shash="MLxm46OXH7vfLHHt0OFSTDnafrTnUsrbHbZuYUEDXfb13sEDQF0N2yXTXUURFNiW7bFa/15ZAgFysAcT5wpPkCWoi9bN0c31jP3SZc2MnwG78UhcERzJp50yS4xWhnjhOunGtnULXJLyZG5w8UfinHEJXg4053Yoa6J1dNZNgqw=">https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=-XhTSvQpPk2-iWadA62p2E9DViO7AyJAp_i6H9bgxeBUOTJTWkpLU0w1NDRaVkk0VkRUTTE4VzlRWS4u</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0070C0">Professor Geoff Merrett</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#0070C0"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#0070C0"><a href="https://www.c-iot.ecs.soton.ac.uk/"><span style="color:#0563C1;text-decoration:none">Head of Centre for IoT and Pervasive Systems</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#0070C0"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Electronics and Computer Science</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">University of Southampton, UK, SO17 1BJ</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">t: +44 (0)23 8059 2775</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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