Friday July 7th saw host to the annual Computer Science In Schools Conference, held for the first time in our brand new Mellor Building facilities on our College Road campus.
The event saw educators and computing specialists from across the area come together to discuss and improve the ways in which computing is taught in our primary and high schools, with keynotes & panel sessions from examining bodies AQA and OCR, as well as a number of other workshops available through out the day.
With such a positive response from this years event, 2018 looks to be an even bigger year for Computer Science In Schools Conference.
A special thank you to our sponsors for the event; AQA, OCR, Cambridge Institute and BCS.
Congratulations to all of our students who graduated on Friday!
It was great to see the School of Computing and Digital Technologies out in force for the grand finale of Awards Week 2017. Despite the day starting off a little on the dark side, the sun came out to see lots of our students and staff enjoying the day with family and friends on the beautiful Trentham Estate.
Our Computing graduands were up first in the morning ceremony, where Carol and Kevin Shanahan received the joint award of Honorary Doctor to recognise their work and the thriving local business they set up together – Synectics Solutions.
“Change always equals opportunity for someone,” Kevin told our new graduates. “Major change equals major opportunities, and it’s up to you guys to go and seize them.”
The company employs over 350 people – including two Staffordshire University alumni on the senior leadership team – and has taken many students on placement over the years.
“We’re absolutely delighted that the Class of 2017 are coming to Synectics,” added Carol, explaining that three of this year’s graduates will be joining the company.
Then our Film and Media, Journalism, Games and Visual Effects students took to the stage in the afternoon for what Vice-Chancellor Liz Barnes described as “probably the liveliest ceremony of the week”! Staffordshire-born explorer, photographer and writer Major Levison Wood received his honorary doctorate, and he too had some inspirational words for our graduates:
“This isn’t the end; it’s only the beginning of a new great adventure, which you should be very excited about.”
If you want to relive the moment you crossed the stage, you can view the live streams now on the Awards Ceremonies Facebook page.
Final year Digital Film & Post Production Technology student Giorgia Perini leads the advertising campaign for bag company Jump From Paper with her video ‘Heatwave’.
The project was shot entirely within our new Cadman Studios on College Road, and was part of Giorgia’s work towards her final year project, with the video featuring on the front page of the companies online presence.
Click here to take a look at the video as part of the campaign.
Ahead of the event, click here to find out how Staffs Uni is helping prospective students get hands on with the latest and best computing hardware and software.
Check out some of the coverage about eSports course launching in 2018!
Find out more about what our head of games Bobbie Fletcher had to say in articles from PC Gamer, Shoryuken, The Sun and Games Industry, as well as Rachel Gowers in an article over at eSports Insider.
Riot’s ‘League Of Legends’, currently one of eSport’s biggest titles
With the ever increasing popularity of eSports title’s such as DOTA2, LoL and Overwatch, and a multimillion pound industry behind it, there’s never been a better time!
We recently held our annual graduate exhibition GradEx right here at Staffs, taking over huge areas of the university to bring you the most up-to-date and exciting innovations created by our third year students.
Click Here to find out what The Sentinel had to say about this great day!
Vivian Murray, exhibiting her Games Software Design
Click Here to take a look at an issue of The Photojournalist, a magazine with all stories and pictures produced by our students on the BA Photojournalism course!
The event saw educators and computing specialists from across the area come together to discuss and improve the ways in which computing is taught in our primary and high schools, with keynotes & panel sessions from examining bodies AQA and OCR, as well as a number of other workshops available through out the day.
