NEWS
HANNA
CROWNED
YOUNG
WOMAN
ENGINEER
OF THE
YEAR
Samsung creates digital centre
in the British Museum
AS THE British Museum collection. sessions and resources and
celebrates the 250th Using the latest Samsung establish the centre as a
anniversary of opening to the digital equipment in facilitated leader in museum-based e-
public, it is looking to the sessions, children will learn about learning. Specialist artists and
future to find new ways to all aspects of world cultures, from other educators will also be
engage the next generation Chinese tombs to Egyptian recruited as required for
with the collection. paintings and from clocks and specific programmes and
Located just beneath the watches to clothing from around projects so that the Samsung
Great Court is the new Samsung the world. This is the first project Digital Discovery Centre can
Digital Discovery Centre which of its kind that the British provide audiences with the
provides a state-of-the-art Museum has undertaken with a chance to encounter the very
Hanna
technological hub for children technology partner. best practitioners in digital
Sykulska and young people to learn The centre is run by two full-
technologies.
about and interact with the time members of staff who will
THE WINNER was recently
museum’s unparalleled develop, manage and evaluate the
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announced at the IET 2008
Young Woman Engineer of the
will become an ambassador for the team. Away from work, She received an engraved
Year award ceremony. The the profession as well as receiving Hanna enjoys ballroom dancing at trophy, certificate and a cheque
annual award is organised by a glass trophy and a cheque for a competitive level – a hobby that
for £750. She said: “It is a great
the Institution of Engineering £1,000. she takes very seriously as she
compliment to even be
and Technology (IET) and Hanna, from Oxford, has been competes between six to seven
nominated for the award, let
sponsored by BT, the Women’s working at Imperial College times a year.
alone to win it! I am also
Engineering Society (WES) and Engineering department for four Bijal Thakore, from Raynes
Premier Farnell. years. The winner of the IET Park, South West London, won
delighted to be a face for
Hanna Sykulska is the winner Write Around the World 2006 the Women’s Engineering Society
women engineers within the
of the Young Woman Engineer of competition, she also worked on award – an engraved trophy,
industry and to show that we are
the Year awards 2008. The 26 the Phoenix NASA mission as an certificate and a cheque for £500.
here to stay.”
year old was lost for words when instrument downlink engineer. Elaine Hislop was the winner
she was named the winner. She She was the youngest member of of the WES Doris Gray award.
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Over
1
/3 of UK schools don’t have effective data backup
RESEARCH carried out by As a result, in the last twelve This could mean many schools Ireland, told Technology in
Acronis reveals that over one- months, one in ten (7%) of UK will risk going without – Education: “Education
third of UK schools (37%) are schools have suffered an IT potentially impacting on exam organisations are increasing
sitting on a data loss time failure from which they were pass rates and the school’s their reliance on IT resources
bomb that puts everything unable to recover their data. reputation. Alternatively, they will and therefore increasing the
from pupils’ coursework, The survey also reveals that need to find budget from volume of their digital data.
teachers’ lesson plans and over half (57%) of respondents elsewhere to ensure all their This means the chance of data
electronic school records at think that the credit crunch may digital assets remain protected, loss is rocketing and they are
risk becaude they do not have impact significantly on the budget should the worst happen. increasingly vulnerable.”
a full data backup and for their school’s backup and Kevin Moreau, general
recovery policy in place. recovery solutions during 2009. manager of Acronis UK & Circle No.E3
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