{"id":1931,"date":"2019-03-06T15:09:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T15:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2019-03-06T15:09:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T15:09:58","slug":"summer-school-opportunity-for-computing-students-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2019\/03\/06\/summer-school-opportunity-for-computing-students-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer school opportunity for computing students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students from the School of Computing can apply for free places on immersive summer schools in France. The three-week courses, which are taught in English,\u00a0each explore a different theme in depth.<\/p>\n<p>The topics available this year are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AI and Robotics<\/li>\n<li>Blockchain<\/li>\n<li>Internet of Things (IoT)<\/li>\n<li>Video Games<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The summer schools take place at\u00a0Epitech, a university-level institution that specialises in computing. They have 12 campuses across France. At the summer school everyone starts with a 1-week intensive course in C and Python programming. The remaining two weeks involve a project in the chosen theme. There are also cultural activities such as sightseeing trips.<\/p>\n<p>There are two free summer school places for Kent\u00a0students. They are suitable for first and second-year undergraduates in the\u00a0School of Computing (Canterbury or Medway).\u00a0Students need to apply by 15 April 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Further details and how to apply available at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.kent.ac.uk\/people\/staff\/pgk\/episum.html\">https:\/\/www.cs.kent.ac.uk\/people\/staff\/pgk\/episum.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students from the School of Computing can apply for free places on immersive summer schools in France. The three-week courses, which are taught in English,\u00a0each &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2019\/03\/06\/summer-school-opportunity-for-computing-students-2\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":1937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1479,124],"tags":[768,397,10469,9871],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/1938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}