{"id":606,"date":"2016-07-06T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.eda.kent.ac.uk\/news-ext\/2016\/07\/06\/dr-richard-guest-participates-in-dragons-den-inspired-km-bright-spark-awards\/"},"modified":"2016-07-06T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T00:00:00","slug":"dr-richard-guest-participates-in-dragons-den-inspired-km-bright-spark-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2016\/07\/06\/dr-richard-guest-participates-in-dragons-den-inspired-km-bright-spark-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Richard Guest participates in &#8216;Dragons Den&#8217; inspired KM Bright Spark Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Dr Richard Guest, Deputy Head of the School of Engineering and Digital Arts, recently participated in the &#8216;Dragons Den&#8217; inspired KM Bright Spark Awards, whereby students from across Kent were invited to submit collaborative science projects using cross-curricular skills in maths, IT, science and engineering to investigate, innovate and invent.<\/p>\n<p>The top ten initiatives were selected to compete at a Dragon&#8217;s Den-inspired final at Discovery Park, Sandwich in a bid to win trophies and a \u00a3500 cash prize.  Dr Richard Guest participated as one of a panel of eight dragons quizzing the students.<\/p>\n<p>Other panel members included: Bal Sandher of Hectic Lifestyles; Robert Crook of Pfizer; Dr John Dickinson of the University of Kent; Jane Abbott of Benenden Hospital; Karen Arnold of Golding Homes; Paul Gannaway of Betteridge and Milsom; and Kimberley Anderson of Discovery Park.<\/p>\n<p>The full story can be accessed here.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Richard Guest, Deputy Head of the School of Engineering and Digital Arts, recently participated in the &#8216;Dragons Den&#8217; inspired KM Bright Spark Awards, whereby &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2016\/07\/06\/dr-richard-guest-participates-in-dragons-den-inspired-km-bright-spark-awards\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606"}],"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\/55249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}