The Monday Mail #13.12 - Week 11 (B)

:: Your weekly round-up of undergraduate life in the School. From Toby Howard, Director of Undergraduate Studies.
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Good morning! it's Monday 2 December, and it’s Week 11, a B week. Once again, lots going on, have a good week!

Toby => http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~toby

* MAKE A FUNDACIOUS THING. Bid for cash to develop fun and audacious technologies/events to benefit life in the School. Your bid should describe your ideas, what you’ll use the money for (max £500 per project) and how it will benefit your fellow students. Hurry! Deadline this Weds 4 Dec => http://studentnet.cs.manchester.ac.uk/xmaspresents/

* BBC DIGITAL MEDIA. Laura Howarth-Kirke and Kristian Epps, who both graduated this summer, will be talking about their experiences on the BBC’s graduate digital media scheme, this Weds 4 Dec at 13:00 in LT1.1. Find out what life is like at the BBC for graduates. All welcome => http://www.bbc.co.uk/careers/trainee-schemes/digitalmediascheme

* CODING IN DELFT. The Coding Dojo team who entered the ACM comp in Delft last week have blogged about their experiences => http://codingdojo.cs.man.ac.uk

* MOVEMBER SUCCESS. Students and staff (27 in the team) raised an amazing £1,651 for Men’s Health charities -- thanks for all your support. See the MoMen (and MoLadies) in all their glory => http://goo.gl/nYCRkm

* TELL US ABOUT YOUR COURSES. The Semester 1 Unit Evaluation Questionnaires launch today. It’s your chance to tell us what you think about each of your course units. This is how it works: you give us your views, we take those to your lecturers, publish their responses, and make any improvements necessary. Here's the response from the most recent UEQs, Semester 2 last year => http://goo.gl/mLlucS

* CSSOC CURRY NIGHT. This Weds 4 Dec CSSoc is organising a Christmas curry night. Costumes are very welcome but not compulsory! Christmas Crackers to the first 40 => http://url.cssoc.co.uk/christmascurry

* CSSOC BEERFEST. And on Thurs 5 Dec, CSSoc will be arranging tickets for the Beerfest at the Student Union. Tickets are £3 => http://url.cssoc.co.uk/beerfest

* TALK TALK. They’ll be Talking Talking about technical opportunities at the Talk Talk Group today, Monday 2 Dec. Sign up => https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/skill-up-tickets-9420052631

* AMPERSAND. Ampersand Commerce and 1UP have launched the Ampersand Ultimate Graduate Programme. Come along this Thurs 5 Dec at 14:00 in Kilburn LF15 to hear all about the programme. Apply => http://ampersandcommerce.com/whats-up-1-up

* MANCHESTER ULTIMATE PROGRAMMING. All the 1UP workshops, meetings, master classes and Hack-a-thons are finished for this Semester. 1UP want your feedback => http://tinyurl.com/1upfeedback

* HAVE YOUR SAY. Y1 and Y2 students, make your voice heard in the University’s Student Barometer survey, open until this Friday 6 Dec => http://staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/supporting-students/student-experience

* AGILE Y3 PROJECT CLUB. This Fri 6 Dec at 12:00 in Kilburn 2.33. All welcome => sembury@cs.manchester.ac.uk

* CAREERS / COMPS / REPORT ENVIRONMENT ISSUES. => Links at http://tinyurl.com/themondaymail

Enjoy your week!

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