First year computer science student Matt Duff has won the\u00a0\u00a3500 Summerbuzz prize after pitching – Dragon\u2019s Den style – to sponsor, Kinetic Solutions.<\/p>\n
Sixteen\u00a0students from the School of Computing and Kent Business School \u00a0applied for this prize that rewards the best summer plan in terms of employability skills. \u00a0Five students from both the Canterbury and Medway campuses were shortlisted, and had to pitch their plan and answer challenging questions by the Kinetic Solutions \u2018Dragons\u2019 \u2013 Managing Director Chris Wildsmith, Technical Director (and Kent alumnus) Rob Turner and Sales Manager Emma Sinfield.<\/p>\n
Matt Duff’s plan of a trip to California to pursue his interest in eSports won him the prize, but with the caveat of blogging his activities during the summer. More details to follow on Matt’s blog…!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
First year computer science student Matt Duff has won the\u00a0\u00a3500 Summerbuzz prize after pitching – Dragon\u2019s Den style – to sponsor, Kinetic Solutions. Sixteen\u00a0students from … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[19110,112435,112438,57952,397,112436],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624"}],"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=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}