Student Robotics in the Daily Telegraph

[Andrew Cottrell]

Hello all

In August a member of the Daily Telegraph came to us to see if we had any images which could go with a piece they were working on. The piece was on independent schools and females in STEM subjects where Headington School spoke highly about the competition.

We replied back with images and hadn't heard anything until Jeremy remembered that the original date they said it would be published was the upcoming Saturday. 

I got in contact with them yesterday to see how it was going and infact they launched the article a week early, so in last Saturdays Telegraph there was a good 5 paragraphs on Student Robotics.

On a good note, it makes the competition sound good and is very good publicity. It has a nice and accurate quote from a Headington school competitor.

On a bad note, there's some large inaccuracies. Primarily to do with how big of a deal Headington school were, stating that: they were the first female team and that they won both the 2013 and 2014 competition. (For those who don't know, they won Rookie and First movement at 2013 but not the competition). 

There doesn't seem to be a spike on Piwik at all, but it may just be that the name is put into some peoples head now, not necessarily those who will actively seek it straight away.

The two PDFs the Telegraph sent me are attached, we're mentioned in the top right corner of P4-5 STEM GIRLS.pdf. 

Cheers,

Andy

[Jeremy Morse]

Hi Andy,

Thanks for interacting with the torygraph, there's no such thing as bad
publicity and more pieces like this would be great to get the word out.

On 16/09/14 08:56, Andrew Cottrell wrote:
> On a bad note, there's some large inaccuracies. Primarily to do with how
> big of a deal Headington school were, stating that: they were the first
> female team and that they won both the 2013 and 2014 competition. (For
> those who don't know, they won Rookie and First movement at 2013 but not
> the competition).

It is indeed a pity, alas we can't control what they write. Most annoyingly:

"the Student Robotics competition, which is organised by the University
of Southampton"

redirects enquiries to UoS and not us, and makes all our contributions
naught in the eyes of the reader [0]. As mentioned in the ECS-goodies
topic, we need to make it clear that our sponsors are sponsoring what we
do, not /doing/ what we do.

[0] To be clear again, there's nothing we could have done in this case

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Thanks,
Jeremy

[Olly Smith]

On Tuesday, September 16, 2014 10:54:28 AM UTC+1, jmorse wrote:

Thanks for interacting with the torygraph, 

My sides. Thanks for making my day Jeremy :') 

[Harry Cutts]

Hi,

Great! This certainly can't do any harm.

On Tuesday, 16 September 2014 10:54:28 UTC+1, jmorse wrote:

"the Student Robotics competition, which is organised by the University
of Southampton"

redirects enquiries to UoS and not us, and makes all our contributions
naught in the eyes of the reader [0]. As mentioned in the ECS-goodies
topic, we need to make it clear that our sponsors are sponsoring what we
do, not /doing/ what we do.

[0] To be clear again, there's nothing we could have done in this case

Can't we contact the paper so they can put something in their corrections box?

Harry Cutts