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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dear UKESF Scholar,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">You should have just received this email from me regarding the opportunity to be a Mentor at the ECS Summer Taster Courses this August. However, I wanted to also drop you all a separate
email to encourage you to take part – as you know, one of the commitments of your scholarship is to take part in some form of outreach event during the year – and being a Mentor would count for this. Most UKESF companies seem to be supportive of releasing
their scholars to take part, if you have that conversation with them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">If you don’t want to/can’t do this, but would like to find out about other ECS outreach activities you could get involved with during the year, please drop my colleague Dr Reena Pau (cc’d)
an email, and she can tell you more.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Any questions, get in touch.<o:p></o:p></span></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</span></b><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></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="https://www.c-iot.ecs.soton.ac.uk/" title="https://www.c-iot.ecs.soton.ac.uk/"><span style="text-decoration:none">Head of
Centre for IoT and Pervasive Systems</span></a></span></b><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Electronics and Computer Science</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Southampton, UK, SO17 1BJ</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">t: +44 (0)23 8059 2775</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Geoff Merrett <gvm@ecs.soton.ac.uk><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, 16 March 2021 at 14:30<br>
<b>To: </b>"ecs-ug-location-so@all.soton.ac.uk" <ecs-ug-location-so@all.soton.ac.uk><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Reena Pau <R.Pau@soton.ac.uk>, Alex Weddell <asw@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, "jsh2@ecs.soton.ac.uk" <jsh2@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, Daniel Spencer <D.C.Spencer@soton.ac.uk><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Be a Mentor at the ECS (Virtual) Summer Taster Courses 2021</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dear ECS student,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">ECS has a long history of running its own Summer ‘Taster Courses’ (e.g.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/news/4506"><span style="color:#044A91">http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/news/4506</span></a>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/news/4752"><span style="color:#044A91">http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/news/4752</span></a>),
and will be running them <i><u>virtually</u></i> this summer from 02-06 August 2021. Around 140x 16-18 year old school/college students will be attending to find out more about Electronics, Computer Science, and Biomedical Electronic Engineering. There will
be a mix of lectures/discussions and hands-on activities that they undertake. You can find out more at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.taster.ecs.soton.ac.uk/"><span style="color:#044A91">www.taster.ecs.soton.ac.uk</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">A team of our current undergraduate students will be Mentors at the Taster Course, helping them during the practical exercises, etc. They have always been fantastic and massively contributed to the success of the event (and I think
enjoyed themselves too). We are now recruiting the student Mentor team for the 2021 Taster Courses.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>If you’re interested in being a Mentor, please complete this form (<a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.office.com%2Fr%2F45D2JvftVv&data=04%7C01%7Cukesf-scholars%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7Ceceb311707d74a52556008d8e8885edb%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0%7C0%7C637515019682895903%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=hj%2FVC5xjOlpjqOafzmaitQtBJnsparQDsyCtEP%2BOFkI%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://forms.office.com/r/45D2JvftVv" shash="Cw5g6cuMR8DMnufwPw+F6nIThpm0VDdezmT+N+DyOKefzerP2KI0ZZ7kVSKtWPzFZNCju/Lo/caEQzOkjriKhs27256HQ3osrUpbz3NaDDlLE5Xdw6eWrxd3ijAB4bPslMofz1FyO5+nYBt5Ytb3Cp1xT01BosNLRcsMogJmYsM=">https://forms.office.com/r/45D2JvftVv</a>)
by 31 March 2021.</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Mentors are paid to acknowledge and thank them for their efforts. However we are primarily interested in those students who are keen to volunteer and are enthusiastic to encourage the next generation of engineers
and scientists, and would have still volunteered even if we weren’t paying them!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">Best regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#004160">Professor Geoff Merrett, Dr Reena Pau, Dr Jon Hare, Dr Alex Weddell, Dr Dan Spencer</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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