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IBM 鈥� one of the world鈥檚 leading multinational technology companies 鈥� launched the three-stage 鈥樷�� competition back in 2005 to introduce aspiring coders to the platform, which specialises in mission-critical technology for businesses with a 99.999% uptime rate, 100% encryption and all-round system reliability.

A total of 38 students from the School, which boasts a number of popular undergraduate courses including Automotive Engineering, Artificial Intelligence & Robotics and Cybersecurity, registered to take part.

Results from the 2019 鈥楳aster the Mainframe鈥� challenge showed that 13 students from 天美传媒 successfully completed Part 1, whilst two completed Part 2 and one student managed to get through to the final stage and complete Part 3.

Two students, Daniel Serbanescu and Radu Popescu, who were Part 2 and Part 3 finishers have been listed in the competition鈥檚 鈥樷�� which features the top 33 participants from the UK.

Dr Paul Sant, Head of School of Computer Science Technology, commented:

鈥淐oding is such an important skill for our students to obtain early on in their studies and will ultimately prove invaluable when it comes to employability or postgraduate study. 听

鈥淲e encourage all our students to seek out opportunities such as this, as it will help build their coding confidence, enable them to practise their skills within a safe and trusted environment, and the end result can be gold dust for their CVs and future career paths.鈥�