{"id":322,"date":"2014-02-05T09:26:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T09:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=322"},"modified":"2014-02-05T09:26:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T09:26:42","slug":"students-set-up-new-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2014\/02\/05\/students-set-up-new-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Students set up new society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students have formed a new society at the Medway campus which will provide a range of social and academic events for students interested in computing.<\/p>\n<p>David Laban, a 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0year student studying Information Technology at Kent, is the president of the newly formed Medway Computing Society (MCS) at the Medway Campus.<\/p>\n<p>David said: &#8216;We feel that there is no real community for computing students at Medway and want to change that. MCS will aim to bring everyone together who has a common interest in the subject and provide a range of social and academic activities for its members.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Events have planned so far:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gaming and movie nights<\/li>\n<li>Bowling with lecturers<\/li>\n<li>Trips to London to the Science Museum &amp; the Excel Centre<\/li>\n<li>Participation in viral activities\/events<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Academic events planned so far:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Medway Hackathon (24 hour challenge event to produce and present a program\/system with prizes at the end).. There will be pizza!<\/li>\n<li>Guest speakers from varying areas of the field<\/li>\n<li>Help and mentorship with acdemic problems members might be facing (e.g. coding questions, UML, Essays etc..)<\/li>\n<li>L.A.B.A.T (Learn a bit about technology events). Members can bring in cool pieces of technology and show others its features.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Membership is \u00a33 and this gives students access to these events.<\/p>\n<p>Students can sign up online by following this link:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gkunions.co.uk\/organisation\/6684\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.gkunions.co.uk\/organisation\/6684\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is also a Facebook page where events will be posted:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KentComputingClub\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KentComputingClub<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students have formed a new society at the Medway campus which will provide a range of social and academic events for students interested in computing. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2014\/02\/05\/students-set-up-new-society\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[4859,8834,37405,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322"}],"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\/5321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}