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I'm outside UCLan's 53 Degrees to find out more
about the Four Week Challenge for First Year Computing students
Let's go and have a look inside!
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Where did the idea for the Four Week Challenge come from?
We got some great ideas from a conference in London
We came back and adapted them to what we really wanted to do.
It was like a bright idea that kind of grew bigger.
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I think it's successful because
we found something that's really engaged the students
the aspect of the competition has got them really fired up and motivated.
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It's so hands on, it's what they come to university to do
it's not book learning, it's not
"In 3 years time you'll hopefully be able to achieve this"
They're doing it here and now, hands on and really practical.
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The Four Week Challenge is a very good way to get into programming
which no other university does.
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It's successful because of the efforts that the students and the lecturers have put in
The amount of effort that the lecturers have put in shouldn't be underplayed here
This is a huge effort on a large number of people's behalf
and they've really committed to actually supporting the students to achieve something special,
but the students put in a massive amount of work
I'm aware of people up to 5am, this morning, preparing for this event
which I think is absolutely spectacular.
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The Four Week Challenge really gets you into
the way things work at university really fast
and it helps you make friends a lot quicker.
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Just walking around, you can see there's a real sense of enthusiasm
the students are really keen to promote their products
they're really geared up to this, and that's what is fantastic
What would you say to other students about the Four Week Challenge?
Be prepared for a lot of hard work
but it's worth it in the end
when you get to the end, and you know you've done everything
it's such a good feeling to know that it all works
but also being top of the leaderboard pays off for the good work
If you could you sum up the Four Week Challenge in one word, what would it be?
Awesome!
Challenge!
Very hard... but fun!
Exciting!
Amazing!
Awesome!
Really good!
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