RGS Pupil wins the BCS Award for the Best Information Technology Student 2010

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   Peter Calvert receives the award for Best Information Technology Student from Dr Liz Bacon, Vice President and Chair,. BCS

 

Calvert, a pupil of the Royal

Grammar School, Guildford now studying

at Cambridge University has won the BCS Award for the Best Information

Technology Student at the 2010 SET (Science, Engineering & Technology

Student of the Year) Awards.                        

Peter won the award for his work on the

Parallelisation of Java for Graphics Processors.

His win was announced at a ceremony attended by 450

students, academics, and business leaders in London’s Hilton Hotel, Park Lane on Friday 3rd

September. Entries were received from major universities in Europe,

and judges paid tribute to the exception quality of this year’s work. 45

students were shortlisted in fifteen different categories.

The SET Awards are Europe’s most important awards for science and

engineering undergraduates and are organised by The Leadership Forum and sponsored by Airbus, Anglo

American, ARM Holdings, AstraZeneca, AWE, BCS, Bentley Motors, BP, Kraft,  Laing O’Rourke, Lloyd's Register, Microsoft

Research, Morgan Crucible and the National Physical Laboratory.

They are supported and judged by BCS The Chartered

Institute for IT, The British Pharmacological Society, The Institute of Food

Research, The Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology, The

Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining, The Institute of Physics, The

Institution of Chemical Engineers, The Institution of Civil Engineers, The Institution of Electrical Engineers, The

Institution of Mathematics and its Applications, The

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, The London Mathematical

Society, and The Royal Aeronautical Society.

For details of all the other award winners please see

the Science, Engineering & Technology Student of the Year Awards website.