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News Release from: TDC (Telecom Design Communications)
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 28 October 2003
Young innovators recieve their rewards
Following its second annual "Young innovator of the year" competition, last week TDC presented the four winners with their prizes.
Following its second annual "Young innovator of the year" competition, last week TDC presented the four winners with their prizes This year students were given the task of thinking of ways of "Making machines see"
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 18 Dec 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The competition invited students to think of the car of 2010 and to consider how many cameras will be built into them.
Schools and colleges in Hampshire and Berkshire were each sent a competition pack.
Managing Director Jerry Sandys was also invited to return to Costello Technology College, winners of last year's competition, to hold an assembly for 200 students in September.
Following difficult judging of over 150 entries, the winners of this year's competition were as follows.
First prize of a Polaroid digital camera, leather bag and memory card, kindly donated by OmniVision, went to Rebecca Stirk, Swanmore College of Technology.
The second prize of a Siemens M50 mobile phone, kindly donated by Siemens, went to Jennifer Dingley, Swanmore College of Technology.
And two runners-up prizes, each of a Natwest Bank account with GBP 50, kindly donated by Natwest, went to Michael Alder, Swanmore College of Technology, and Victoria Nugent, Costello Technology College.
Barbara Bryant, Chief Executive of the North Hampshire Chamber of Commerce and Industry, presented the school prize of a GBP 200 of book vouchers to Swanmore College of Technology in Southampton on behalf of TDC.
Jerry Sandys, Managing Director of TDC comments: "We have been very impressed with the amount and quality of entries received.
It is most exciting to see the effort and initiative that has been taken by all of these students, we particularly hope that this has also given students a further chance to consider the exciting opportunities that are available in the electronics industry".
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