{"id":1252,"date":"2021-03-05T17:14:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T17:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2021-03-05T17:16:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T17:16:15","slug":"uk-defence-and-security-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/2021\/03\/05\/uk-defence-and-security-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Defence and Security Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Win \u00a3250<\/p>\n<p>The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has launched a quest to uncover visions of the future from the brightest student minds in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Entrants must answer the question: what do you believe to be the future threats or opportunities facing UK defence and security over the next 25 years?<\/p>\n<p>The competition is open to undergraduate and postgraduate students currently based at UK academic institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The 5 finalists will be invited to (virtually) present their essay to a panel of senior current and former government officials, before the final winner is revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will receive a \u00a3250 prize and the top 5 will receive certificates of commendation.<\/p>\n<p>More detail here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/future-threats-and-opportunities-competition-for-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/future-threats-and-opportunities-competition-for-students<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/2021\/03\/05\/uk-defence-and-security-competition\/competition-time\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1253\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1253\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/files\/2021\/03\/competition-time.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Win \u00a3250 The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has launched a quest to uncover visions of the future from the brightest student minds in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/2021\/03\/05\/uk-defence-and-security-competition\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[143216,5343,872],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studentexperience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}