A massive response to the offer of free tickets led to a group of 14 students travelling to the new BBC Media City in Salford. The BBC originally offered just two tickets but demand was so great that Head of School Dr David Cobham wrote back requesting additional places and the BBC kindly obliged.
First year student Wai Lo said “It was totally an amazing experience for me! Sat there with lots of IT experts, feeling a bit nervous at first, but I got used to it later in the day as I was so into the talk! I was the youngest person in that event!! Totally worth it!! Hoping there will be another activity like this in the future!”
According to final year student Jake Brown, “getting the opportunity to listen to talks you wouldn’t normally get access to is definitely something you should go for. I didn’t really find the talks completely relevant to what I’m interested in, but it made me notice just how important database related things are in computing and that I really need to get my head around them if I want to get a decent job in software development! It was also just a good chance to get some contacts and take a look behind the scenes at the BBC which in itself was worth going to the talks for. Media City is way better than I imagined.”