A group of York students has won the opportunity to have their very own I-phone application developed after winning The App Challenge final, held at the Ron Cooke Hub on Wednesday, January 18.
YUSU Welfare officer Bob Hughes has warned students to be vigilant after a student loans phishing scam has been revealed.
Her Majesty the Queen will be visiting York on Maundy Thursday, 5th April, as part of the 800th anniversary of York’s Charter for the traditional “Royal Maundy” ceremony.
A flood caused by a heating system “failure” forced the university IT services to shut down many essential systems on Sunday night, causing problems for many students on the eve of their exams and assignment due-dates.
The teams were originally briefed for this at 9.15am on Tuesday. However, due to a lack of specification and clarity during the briefing, most of the teams had misinterpreted the task, and began selling things such as ice cream, lemonade and suncream.
The challenge was stopped, the teams were given more explicit rules, and the challenge began again at 1pm. Despite the slight mishap, the day still went well, with teams coming up with interesting ideas such as massages, netball games, and even sponging students with water.
The day's eliminations were crucial as the half of the remaining 12 teams would be eliminated. All in all, Calibre emerged as the winners of the challenge, raising over £146 in total. Collectively, a total of £800 was raised.
The teams that unfortunately were eliminated were High Flyers, A Breath of Fresh Air, Rat Pack, the Ivy Cottagers, and the Potato Heads. The 6 teams still in contention for the £1000 prize at the end of the day were Calibre, mBezel, Vivacity, 2 Snakes a Fox and a Horse, Apex and the Jocks.
Look out for them over the next two days as they prepare for the third challenge, which began today at 9.15am. The third challenge has been revealed as a two-day challenge in which the teams have to come up with their own 30-second advertisement for a new product.
Check the progress over the next couple of days on the Yorker.
For more information on Team Calibre's event please follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=106781942680&ref=ts
Neil, Charlie, Hannah and Polly
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Check out Team mBezel's Event, the Woodstock Warm Up in support of Rag with a guest appearance from the Hoff.
http://tiny.cc/mbezel
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