{"id":440,"date":"2017-10-27T12:28:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T11:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/?p=440"},"modified":"2017-10-27T12:28:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T11:28:44","slug":"kent-phd-ambassador-wins-national-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/2017\/10\/27\/kent-phd-ambassador-wins-national-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent PhD ambassador wins national award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iulia Motoc, a PhD Student and a postgraduate ambassador for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eda.kent.ac.uk\/\">School of Engineering and Digital Arts<\/a> at the University has been involved in the delivery of outreach activities to students attending the University&#8217;s Partner and KMPF schools for a number of years. During her time working in this capacity, Iulia has developed and delivered many exciting sessions such as programming a humanoid robot and building a robotic arm out of syringes and rubber bands.<\/p>\n<p>Due to her dedication, positive feedback and engaging sessions, Iulia was nominated for one of the 2017 British Engineering Excellence Awards. From a shortlist of five candidates, including representatives from\u00a0across industry, Iulia won the award for Engineering Ambassador of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration event was hosted by the Honourable Artillery Company in London and was co-organised by Eureka! magazine, New Electronics and MA Business. The judges were very impressed by Iulia&#8217;s work and we are very proud that she is still able to represent the University of Kent with her inspiring workshops.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Outreach Programme for Partner and KMPF schools, please contact <a href=\"outreach@kent.ac.uk\">outreach@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iulia Motoc, a PhD Student and a postgraduate ambassador for the School of Engineering and Digital Arts at the University has been involved in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/2017\/10\/27\/kent-phd-ambassador-wins-national-award\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40798,"featured_media":441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[26854,146524,99357],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40798"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}