{"id":15436,"date":"2016-06-30T12:37:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T11:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=15436"},"modified":"2016-06-30T12:37:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T11:37:06","slug":"creative-sandwell-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/30\/creative-sandwell-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Sandwell Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three computing students have developed the advanced R2U Road to University app, after huge inspiration from their course lecturers, which they are eager to make a commercial success.<\/p>\n

Inventors Kieran Dee, Josh Oakley and Mukesh Jassal have designed the app to estimate figures of UCAS points from students\u2019 current grades, and to accumulate a list of matching universities.<\/p>\n

\"App<\/a>
App designers Mukesh, Kieran and Josh with tutor Raj Patel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A lot of interest has already been shown in the app by other colleges who are exploring the option of utilising it for their own students\u2019 university research.<\/p>\n

Kieran, who has an unconditional offer from Birmingham City University to study computer science, said: \u201cThis experience of live project work has given me a head start on my degree.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mukesh also has an offer from BCU and Josh is hoping to get an Apprenticeship with BT.<\/p>\n

The students formed a design team, arranging committee consultations every week and concocting flow charts. They also had to acquire new languages, including Java in order to create their app.<\/p>\n

Lecturer Raj Patel said: \u201cThey\u2019ve done exceptionally well. This is a commercially viable app which could easily be marketed to other students.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fashion students have also produced final collections with jazzy edges by crafting accessories in the college\u2019s Fab Lab, which is a new digital fabrication laboratory.<\/p>\n

They laser-cut white flowers and red roses, and added chains to produce jewellery.<\/p>\n

\"Acrylic<\/a>
Acrylic flower and sword pendants<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A student named Dale Curtis made a sword pendant to counterpart his college fashion show designs. Another student inscribed a purple faux leather skirt with delicate butterflies.<\/p>\n

Fashion students showcased four concluding collections on the catwalk with a stimulating show in the college atrium.<\/p>\n

First year students fashioned a 1980s collection, from power dressing to punk in addition to a 1950s collection of hand-printed pretty skirts and scarves.<\/p>\n

Second year students designed a surreal dream drape collection and a Hollywood high fashion menswear collection.<\/p>\n

The Fab Lab is open to the public on Mondays and Wednesdays, from 2pm to 5pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three computing students have developed the advanced R2U Road to University app, after huge inspiration from their course lecturers, which they are eager to make a commercial success. Inventors Kieran Dee, Josh Oakley and Mukesh Jassal have designed the app to estimate figures of UCAS points from students\u2019 current grades, and to accumulate a list […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":15440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,37,3,47,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion-beauty","category-local-news","category-news","category-technology","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}