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Prizes

Various parts of our degree programmes attract prizes awarded by major companies including Accenture, British Airways, Hewlett Packard, Logica and Arjuna.

Teams from the University also regularly enter the IBM Universities Business Challenge. In 2003-2004 a Computing Science team were victorious at the Grand Final. See the photo.

Stage Prize Value Awarded for Prizewinners
1 BCS £125 Outstanding Performance BCS Prizewinners
1 School of Computing Science   Information Systems Stage 1 Information Systems Prizewinners
2 Logica £500
(for the group)
Group Project (the winners of this prize go forward into the IBM national Thinkpad Challenge) Logica Prizewinners
2 Scott Logic

One prize of £200 and 4 prizes of £100

Best five overall performances assessed on examination and project results Scott Logic Prizewinners
3 Codeworks (see prizewinners listing) Best Final Year Project Posters
Codeworks Prizewinners
3 British Airways Ticket to a European Destination Outstanding Performance British Airways Prizewinners
3 School of Computing Science £500 Best overall performance by an Information Systems student

Stage 3 School of Computing Science Prizewinners

3 School of Computing Science £250 Best project by a Stage 3 student Project School of Computing Science Prizewinners
MSc The Colin Graham Group Project Prize sponsored by Accenture £350
(for the group)
Group Project Prize The Colin Graham Group Project Prize-winners
MSc Philip Merlin £250 MSc Dissertation Philip Merlin Prizewinners
SDIA JBoss £200 Best overall performance JBoss prizewinners

 

Stage 1 BCS Prizewinners

The Stage One prize awarded for Outstanding Performance and presented by the BCS has been won by the following students:

Year Student  
2004-2005 Richard N. Payne  
2003-2004 Jose Marcelino  
2002-2003 Richard J. Payne  
2001-2002 Geoff Martin  
2000-2001 Chris Hern  
1999-2000 Martin Ellis  
1998-1999 Thomas Seed  
1997-1998 Gary Johnson  
     

Stage 1 Information Systems Prizewinners

2002-2003 J.P.OKeefe, P.Zhang.  
2001-2002 C. Franks  
 

Stage 2 Logica Prizewinners

The Stage Two prize awarded for best Group Project and presented by Logica has been won by the following students.

2004-2005 Waleed Al Hadhrami, Michael Broadwood, Paul Dunlop, Jonathan. Hook, Jian Song, Emma Soullier, Robert Stiff  
2003-2004 Christopher Franks, Stephen Lindsay, Christopher Mallon, Richard Payne, Carl Renton  
2002-2003 David Abernethy, Richard Gate, Jigun Kim, Simon Laing, Will McElderry, Robert Morrell, James Pringle  
2001-2002 Jonathan Bainbridge, Oliver Edgell, Sean Gray, Harry Mowat, Chris Neale, Karl Potts
 
2000-2001 gold starAndrew Crookham, Souhail Malik, Chris Mountford, Ed Patmore, Øyvind Stølen
This team also won the IBM Thinkpad Challenge competition
View Photo
1999-2000 Sarah Burgess, Alex Hark, Odd Arne Jensen, Helen O'Keeffe, Simon Ruparelia, Paul Sanctuary  
     

Stage 2 Scott Logic Prize for Academic Achievement for Computing Science Students

The Stage Two prize awarded for the best five overall performances by Computing Science students and presented by Scott Logic has been won by the following students:

2005-06    
     

Stage 3 Codeworks Prizewinners

The Stage Three prizes awarded for Best Final Year Project Posters
presented by Codeworks has been won by the following students:

2004-2005

CS 1st prize - a mini-ipod: Chris Johnson (Environment Visualisation)

CS 2nd prize - a Eutechnyxs Street Racing syndicate game: Ken Kuang (Airport Ground System)

IS 1st prize - a mini-ipod: Carl Renton (School Learning Support)

 

Stage 3 British Airways Prizewinners

The Stage Three prize awarded for Outstanding Performance and presented by British Airways has been won by the following students:

2004-2005 Jon McNestrie  
2003-2004 Marios Andreou  
2002-2003 Christopher Hern  
2001-2002 Simon Woodman View Photo
2000-2001 Thomas Seed  
1999-2000 Vegard Brox  
1998-1999 Alexios Boukouvalas View Photo
     

Stage 3 School of Computing Science, Information Systems Prize

The Stage Three prize awarded for Outstanding Performance by an Information Systems student and presented by the School of Computing Science has been won by the following students:

2004-2005 Leon Duffield  
2003-2004 S. Buckley  
2002-2003 M.A. Lord  
     

Stage 3 School of Computing Science, Best Project Prize

The Stage Three prize awarded for best project and presented by the School of Computing Science has been won by the following students:

2003-2004 R.E. Mallette  
     

Stage 3 Arjuna Prizewinners

The Stage Three prizes awarded for the best five overall performances assessed on examination and project results and presented by Arjuna have been won by the following students:

2003-2004 M.S. Andreou, C.J. Lamprecht, G. Martin  
2002-2003 C.M. Hern, K. Storey, D.S. Challinor, R. Martin  
2001-2002 S.W. Campbell, M.A. Ellis, N.P. Jefferson, D.M. Moody, E.R. Patmore, P. Robinson, S.J. Woodman View Photo
2000-2001 S.J. Aaron, J. Bradley, T.J. Charlton, A.L. Hark, T.P. Seed, E. Vollset and J.W. Walker  
     

MSc Sage Prizewinners

The MSc prize awarded for First Semester Programming for £250 and presented by Sage has been won by the following students:

2002-2003 Yuxiang Wang  
2001-2002 Edward (Kook Mong) Yu View Photo
2000-2001 Jennie Gray View Photo
1999-2000 Will Stephenson  
1998-1999 Jon Burton and Nick Cook View Photo
     

MSc The Colin Graham Group Project Prize-winners

The Colin Graham Group Project Prize is awarded for the best MSc Group Project. It is sponsored by Accenture has been won by the following students. Prior to academic year 2000-2001 this prize was called the Andersen Consulting Prize.

2004-2005 Keith Jones, Grigorios Kamateros, Nzie Okpokam, Yuan Shen, Shen Wei Zhang.  
2003-2004 R. Bond, S. Fan, C.J. Gamble, J. Han, P. Ko, Y. Zhao.  
2002-2003 Yuhui Chen, Michael McDaid, Rakesh Dogra, Mark Gent, Bozena Stansfield, Minjie Sun, Qiong Wang.  
2001-2002 T.S. Burns, H.C.S. Kwan, M.W. MacPherson, S.A.Y. Naqvi, K.M. Yu, Fei Zuo View Photo
2000-2001 J.P. Baddeley, C.J. Carver, M.C. Chantrell, Justin Ferris, C.N. Gustiarti, G.D. Haworth, Thomas Hill, Anthony Johnston, Norman McLean, I.A. Muftach, Steven Paddock, John Rajakulendran, Joel Ross, D.R. Wymer View Photo
1999-2000 Will Stephenson, Anil Wipat, Said Al Harthy, Rob Head, Rod Cullen, Maggie McLernon  
     

MSc Philip Merlin Prizewinners

The MSc Philip Merlin prize awarded for the best MSc Dissertation has been won by the following students:

2004-2005 Jonathan Beardall  
2003-2004 Anthony Burdett, James Worthington  
2002-2003 Simon Todd  
2001-2002 Fengyun Lu View Photo
2000-2001 J.R. Ford  
1999-2000 Nick Cook, Andrew Walker, Wenbin Wei  
     

MSc Arjuna

The MSc  prizes awarded for the best overall performance assessed on examination and project results, presented by Arjuna, have been won by the following students:

2003-2004 Stefanus Hartanto  
2002-2003 Yan Wang, Fiona Milligan.  
2001-2002 C. Bloom, E.T. Wheelhouse View Photo
2000-2001 J. Jillians, L.C. Millar View Photo
     

SDIA JBoss

The SDIA prizes awarded for the best overall performance, presented by JBoss, have been won by the following students:

 

2005-06

   

SDIA Arjuna

The SDIA  prizes awarded for the best overall performance, presented by Arjuna, have been won by the following students:

2003-2004 Anusuriya Devaraju  
2002-2003 J.B. Jones  
2001-2002 A.B. Harrison and E.Vollset View Photo
Last Modified: 22 February, 2006