Thank you to all students who represented their College and participated in the Varsity College cup activities and congratulations to the College of Arts and Law who won the Varsity College Cup. Find out the Varsity winners from the other competitions below.
CAL short story competition
Winner – James Redmond
CAL short story competition winning story by James Redmond
Joint 2nd - Jess Yung and Alex Monkton
Joint 3rd - Heather Collier, Patrick Blake, Samuel Fisher and Ciaran Keenan (COSS)
LES Photography competition
Winner - Jasmine Sandhar, English and History student
CoSS innovative idea competition
Aleem Salim Minsariya - Aleem's idea Identified the difficulty in accessing diagnosis and treatment of some conditions and diseases during the pandemic, and outlined a proposal for a global online network of doctors and consultants to allow patients the flexibility and opportunity to consult physicians outside of their local area.
Gloria Nwator and Adam Halls - Identified a crisis of loneliness as a result of extended lockdowns and proposed an audio friendship app which allows users to set up profiles and accept or reject requests from other users. ‘Matched’ friends would then be able to converse through the app with accompanying prompts for questions and discussion.
Arushi Madan and Aerica Singla - the duo Identified a rise in fake job listings throughout the pandemic and have designed an app that distinguishes between false and legitimate adverts. The app would also provide space for jobseekers to discuss with others in their area about upcoming opportunities.
EPS E-gaming tournament
Over the four days, with the help of the ESport society members, 383 games were played by 50 students over 24 hours in total.
Chess tournament
- 1st place - Daniel Garcia-Leon
- 2nd place - Ciaran Keenan
- Joint 3rd - Atharva Deshmukh & Modest Lungociu
Rocket League
- 1st place - Daniel Bissett
- 2nd place - Tudor Mingheras
- 3rd place - Abhinav Sharma
Among us
- 1st place - Aadil Vorajee
- 2nd place - Donny Frankel
- 3rd place - Kyle Moffat
MDS Public Health competition
The winning entry was Grace Long for her video on use of the ‘Umbrella’ Health Service for addressing the stigma about testing and support for STIs.
View the winning video here
The runner up was Jasmine Sandhar with her video about reticence amongst BAME communities to get the Covid vaccine.
View the runner up entry here