{"id":1808,"date":"2020-03-03T12:39:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T12:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/eda-news\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2022-03-08T11:46:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T11:46:09","slug":"congratulations-to-benjamin-dickinson-upon-winning-best-placement-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2020\/03\/03\/congratulations-to-benjamin-dickinson-upon-winning-best-placement-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Benjamin Dickinson upon winning Best Placement Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many congratulations to Benjamin Dickinson, studying Computer Systems Engineering with a Year in Industry in the School of Engineering and Digital Arts, who won <a href=\"https:\/\/nueawards.co.uk\/awards\/students\/best-placement-student\">Best Placement Student<\/a>\u00a0at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nueawards.co.uk\/\">National Undergraduate Employability Awards<\/a>, in association with Rate My Placement on Friday 28 February. Ben receives an award of \u00a3250 for all his hard work.<\/p>\n<p>The award celebrates the amazing contribution that students make to large businesses across the UK whilst on placement. Benjamin won because he quickly became a trusted and reliable member of staff both internally and with customers. Working with and presenting to senior management, he directly delivered over \u00a32m in revenue and supported the largest new business win last year. He also mentored many of the placement cohort and ran the social media for the company.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin worked as an Industry Value Advisor at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sap.com\/uk\/index.html\">SAP<\/a>, the market leader in end-to-end enterprise application software, database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management.<\/p>\n<p>More details about Ben&#8217;s success and the NUE awards can be located <a href=\"https:\/\/nueawards.co.uk\/awards\/students\/best-placement-student\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well done Ben, from all at the School of Engineering and Digital Arts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many congratulations to Benjamin Dickinson, studying Computer Systems Engineering with a Year in Industry in the School of Engineering and Digital Arts, who won Best &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2020\/03\/03\/congratulations-to-benjamin-dickinson-upon-winning-best-placement-student\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39150,"featured_media":1821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[37392],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}