New IAESTE summer intern Dushko Stanoeski joins the Connect team

Tracey Binnie, Dushko Stanoeski, Cheryl Cairns

Dushko with his summer 2013 colleagues Tracey Binnie (L) and Cheryl Cairns (R)

Dushko Stanoeski joined us this week at Edinburgh Napier University to help complete a summer project.

Dushko is a final year student at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia where he specialises in Informatics and Computer Engineering.

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Fingers crossed for Aga and Tracey at the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium

Aga's poster

Aga’s poster describes work for the Acquisition for VFX module

Today two Edinburgh Napier computing students are competing for an award at a BCS event at the University of Nottingham.

Two months ago in February 2013 Aga Banach and Tracey Binney responded to a call for students to submit a 250 word abstract for a poster presentation at the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium.

The colloquium is the UK’s main event for women undergraduate students of computing. Now in its 6th year, the day features talks from industry and academia, a panel-based careers session, stalls from employers, and lots of networking opportunities.

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