{"id":20617,"date":"2019-08-31T20:26:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T20:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=20617"},"modified":"2019-08-31T20:26:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T20:26:09","slug":"uk-students-eye-10000-hackathon-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/uk-students-eye-10000-hackathon-award\/","title":{"rendered":"UK students eye \u00a310,000 hackathon award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A hackathon with an award tag of ten thousand pounds (<\/b><b>\u00a310,000)<\/b><b> has been opened to United Kingdom-based students, academics, and SMEs, among others.<\/b><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ore.catapult.org.uk\/stories\/offshore-wind-hackathon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hackathon<\/a> has been sponsored by various entities, such as the Energy Technology Partnership (ETP), the National Grid, the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (ORE), and ScottishPower Renewables (SPR).<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will be held ben October 28 and 29 and will take place at the Glasgow Science Centre.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Hackathon to take 36 hours<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Participants in the hackathon will use thirty-six hours in the provision of an authentic wind farm Power Available (PA) measurement. This will entail utilizing data availed by functioning wind farms.<\/b><br \/>\nThe contest shows the fundamentality of digitization and data proficiency in availing PA insights required in the construction of a wind farm.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Conaill Soraghan, digitization and data leader of Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, asserted that they were delighted about the hackathon as it would give different players the chance to show their expertise in innovative and creative prototypes.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He also proclaimed that the National Grid had objectives of attaining a PA sign from all working wind farms covered. As a result, this would be instrumental in availing a practical case example that would provide the needed insights.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Entrants have also been given the choice of participating as an individual or a maximum of six (6) member team.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hackathons are instrumental in coming up with solutions for various challenges as technology has proven to be an incredible problem-solver. For instance, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/student-3d-kidney-surgeons-train\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a student at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) has created a 3D kidney mode<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">l to assist in the training of surgeons.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Technology is also helpful in the education sector as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/education-gamification-exceeds-30-mark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">education gamification has surpassed thirty percent (30%)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> whose primary goal is enhancing learning outcomes. As a result, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/90-indian-engineers-could-try-gamification\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ninety percent (90%) of Indian engineers are eyeing gamification<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hackathon with an award tag of ten thousand pounds (\u00a310,000) has been opened to United Kingdom-based students, academics, and SMEs, among others. The hackathon has been sponsored by various entities, such as the Energy Technology Partnership (ETP), the National Grid, the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (ORE), and ScottishPower Renewables (SPR). It will be held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":20618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}