Over a hundred students gathered last week in the Panorama Room for a reception, poster display and then Award Ceremony for the Warwick Advantage Awards. They were all winners of Awards of various kinds in recognition of outstanding extra-curricular contributions to life at Warwick and the local community.

We were delighted that four Award winners were from Computer Science. Main Awards were presented to Phillip Taylor (CS3) and Hoi Zin (Jackie) Tran (DM3). Gold Awards were gained by two Computer and Business Studies students Samantha Edwards and Nikhita Giridhar (pictured above). Among many activities over her first two years at Warwick Samantha has visited numerous local schools (a different one each week!) as one of the Warwick Technology Volunteers to introduce the programming environment Scratch to pupils and teachers. Interestingly Nikhita, a final year student, commented, "I think it counted significantly towards my getting a job offer from Goldman Sachs that I done so many extra-curricular things during my time at Warwick."

The Warwick Advantage Award provides the opportunity to achieve University recognition and reward for the time and effort that students put into societies, sports clubs, campaigns, committees, volunteering, events, URSS research, work experience & everything else that isn't a degree requirement. Find out more at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/advantage/awards/