{"id":455,"date":"2018-10-08T14:06:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T13:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/?p=455"},"modified":"2021-05-26T15:26:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T14:26:57","slug":"sir-william-siemens-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/2018\/10\/08\/sir-william-siemens-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir William Siemens Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calling all engineering students!\u00a0Digital prodigy? Mechanically minded? Team up with multi-talented engineers and explore your potential. Siemens, the world-leading engineering brand, is inviting you to join MindSphere Live!, a powerful experience and the premise of the annual Sir William Siemens Challenge \u2013 the student engineering event of the year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Date: 16 \u2013 18 November, 2018<\/li>\n<li>Location: iForge at The Diamond Building, University of Sheffield, S3 7RD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Food, travel and accommodation: All taken care of! Looking for a taste of what\u2019s in store? Check out our video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siemens.co.uk\/mindspherelive\">here<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siemens.com\/uk\/en\/home\/company\/fairs-events\/mindsphere-live.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">siemens.co.uk\/mindspherelive<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.siemens.com\/uk\/en\/home\/company\/fairs-events\/mindsphere-live.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-460\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/10\/FB-Post-3-2018-vertical-v2-1024x535.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/10\/FB-Post-3-2018-vertical-v2-1024x535.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/10\/FB-Post-3-2018-vertical-v2-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/10\/FB-Post-3-2018-vertical-v2-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/10\/FB-Post-3-2018-vertical-v2-250x131.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prove you\u2019re the future in your chosen field. Join the event if you study:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mechanical<\/li>\n<li>Software<\/li>\n<li>Computer Sciences<\/li>\n<li>Electrical<\/li>\n<li>Robotics<\/li>\n<li>Related degrees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Go head-to-head with other students from the best universities in the country and bring to life MindSphere, the futuristic operating system connecting the digital world via the Internet of Things. Loose on some fantastic kit, so you can hack our data sets and use them to manipulate an incredible invention \u2013 whether it\u2019s electrified, mechanised or robotic.<\/p>\n<p>The winning team will receive:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Internships at Siemens<\/li>\n<li>The prestigious Sir William Siemens Award<\/li>\n<li>Their creation on display in the University of Sheffield MindSphere Lounge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Up for a weekend of networking with the pros at Siemens and the UK\u2019s best up-and-coming engineers? Application deadline for the William Siemens Challenge is 15<sup>th<\/sup> October.\u00a0Find out more and apply online at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siemens.com\/uk\/en\/home\/company\/fairs-events\/mindsphere-live.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">siemens.co.uk\/mindspherelive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling all engineering students!\u00a0Digital prodigy? Mechanically minded? Team up with multi-talented engineers and explore your potential. Siemens, the world-leading engineering brand, is inviting you to join MindSphere Live!, a powerful experience and the premise of the annual Sir William Siemens Challenge \u2013 the student engineering event of the year. Date: 16 \u2013 18 November, 2018 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/2018\/10\/08\/sir-william-siemens-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sir William Siemens Challenge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}