Today Rob Miles, Andy Sterland and I held a little meeting/workshop for the students here at Hull. Our aim was to get more students interested in entering for one or more of the invitationals. Andy and I arrived very early and decided to have a little meeting/discussion of our own over at the pub, where we had a few snacks and went over the plans we've got for future MSP events/targets. After the pub we headed on over and set up for the session.
I have to admit we had only expected a few people to turn up as we hadn't heard much talk of anyone wanting to enter. We were pleasantly surprised when three people came wandering in. You might say, however, that we were over the moon when the room quickly filled up with eighteen students all wanting to know more. After an hour of chatting there had been a lot of interest shown for the SDC and Project Hoshimi; at the end one student even approached us to ask us whether we thought his idea for an SDC entry was any good. In both mine and Andy's opinions it certainly has a great deal of potential and it would be really good to see it fly.
We reminded the attendees to register for the competitions and most of them said that they had already registered on the website, as far as I know there were a further three registrations today and hopefully more to follow.

The thing that always seems to be a problem with this kind of event is getting people interested, getting people to want to join in, today was a really great sign of the enthusiasm here at Hull. Fifteen of the eighteen attendees where first years and the other three where second years, it's really encouraging to see that even in their first year, students are willing to get out there and take part in things, who knows maybe one of the teams will be jetting off to India.