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Final year project Highly commended for global award
Richard Blumenthal, our ‘Computer Science with Industrial Year’ (BSc) student graduated in 2013 and his Final year project was chosen to be in the Top 8 of a global award which is the Undergraduate Awards’ programme.
Out of the many thousands of international entries, Richard made it into the ‘Highly Commended’ category and has been invited to receive a certificate in Dublin, Ireland where the Prime Minister of Ireland, Enda Kenny will be present at this summit. For more information, please see the ‘Computer Sciences and Information Technology’ 2013 category:
www.undergraduateawards.com/winners/highly-commended/2013-highly-commended
Richard pitched his Final year project to Marks and Spencer, METRO newspaper, applicants on Open Day and scored an outstanding mark.
Richard’s project was an Android App that utilises NFC technology inside smartphones; NFC is an acronym for Near Field Communication which enables smartphone users to instantly communicate with NFC tags at close range. The App enables merchants to display NFC enabled posters advertising discounts to customers where the merchant can be effortlessly liked on Facebook and subsequently the merchant can view unrivalled analytics on their customers.
This app generated a lot of internal and external interest. Richard thanks our University’s Careers department for enabling him to develop his Android Development skills as they awarded Richard with £1,800 to embark on an Android Development Internship in Shanghai, organised by: www.tictwo.com. Richard mentioned that this internship in Shanghai helped him gain the necessary skills to develop a killer App for his Final year project.
One of Richard’s aims of his project was to widen his technical skill sets of which he achieved.
About UndergraduateAwards.com:
Candidates get entered internationally from various high calibre Universities such as Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Auckland and Hong Kong etc.
UndergraduateAwards.com has been in existence since 2009 and is a prestigious and international academic awards programme and aims to celebrate and support the world’s brightest and most innovative undergraduate students by recognising their best projects.
Google and KPMG are partners in this award and the award is also affiliated with Top Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, Columbia, MIT, Princeton and Carnegie Mellon etc.