Hi, just a few hours away from opening up the client side of my final year project website to a small group of select beta testers. But before that, I thought I’d post a screenshot for all to see!

Towards the end of my placement at NPL a few months ago, I was asked by Kingston University to write a short bit of text about my time on placement such as how it helped me, and what it’s given me for the future. Then, after providing the uni with a photo of myself the piece was published a few months later in the 2009 Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics prospectus.

Below is an excerpt of the piece;

“I’m nearing the end of my placement at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington. I’ve been working as a technical coordinator in the knowledge transfer team doing web development and managing technical setups at events and conferences…” More…

If you fancy seeing the page it’s on you can download it as a PDF here.

I’m glad to say I’ve been accepted as an intern at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington, Surrey and start from mid-August. NPL is the UK’s national standards laboratory who carry out fundamental research and develop measurement technologies, vital to improving quality of life, trade competitiveness, and protecting the environment.

My position within the company will be the Technical Coordinator for Online Media and Communities. I will be using web and online media technologies as part of the Knowledge Transfer Delivery Team as well as providing technical support to the KT Delivery Team, helping to communicate scientific knowledge using the web and collaborative technologies.

So the second day of being an ambassador at Kingston University for the Computing, Information Systems & Mathematics (CISM) Faculty at an Applicant Open Day for prospective students commenced earlier today. (My fellow ambassador Myles blogged about the first day over at his blog.)

So, motivated with Red Bull and wearing my CISM t-shirt this time expectations were higher than the February Open Day where the number of students was far fewer than anticipated… but how we were wrong… Yet again the anticipated number of students due to attend was lower than expected, however was still much higher than the first open day. The day went well, ferrying customers from the main exhibition hall (where I was stationed) down to our faculty ‘base room’ which was where prospective students could speak one-to-one with tutors (in theory all good - in practice this doesn’t seem to work very well, due to a lack of students going there!). As well as helping random people every so often who were lost on thier own travels around the maze which is the Penrhyn Road Campus, I also had to take a group around a tour of the computing facilities later in the afternoon.
Yet again it was a good day, a fun nice experience which I would be happy to do again!