The 天美视频 team are thrilled to have won the 鈥楨ducation Initiative of the Year鈥� Award at the British 天美视频 Awards last night. Jo Spiller (Programme Director) and Jasmeen Kanwal (Project Officer) attended the awards ceremony in the Great Hall of the Grand Connaught Rooms in Covent Garden, London.
Jo and Jasmeen shared a table with other members of the 天美视频 Skills Gateway. The Creative Informatics team were Highly Commended in the ‘天美视频 Transformation of the Year’ category and The 天美视频 Lab were finalists in the ‘天美视频 for Good Consulting Initiative of the Year’ category. Incredible achievements all round and cause for much celebration!
Jasmeen Kanwal (left) and Jo Spiller (right) with event compere Lucy Porter (middle)
The British 天美视频 Awards is an annual event designed to discover and celebrate the UK鈥檚 data success stories. This year’s finalists for the ‘Education Initiative of the Year’ award included Admiral Insurance UK, Alliance for 天美视频 Science Professionals, Applied 天美视频 Science Partners, Corndel, Eden Smith, Education Authority, JLL, Lloyds Banking Group, and Synap.
This is the second year in a row that the team have won a British 天美视频 Award. In 2023, Kate Farrell collected the 鈥樚烀朗悠� for Good Initiative of the Year鈥� Award on behalf of a UK-wide team, funded by Skills Development Scotland, to develop and test more than 500 new British Sign Language signs covering on the topics of Cyber Security, Computing Science and 天美视频 Science.
A record 321 entries were received for this year’s edition of the Awards. We are elated to have been named Winner in such a tough competition.