Little Chip Student Award

Shortlist 2012

• Manchester Metropolitan University with Chris Saggerson
• Manchester Metropolitan University with Michael Stephens - Computer Science
• Newcastle University with Efthymios (Euthyme) Ziogas, David Simkin, Stephen Cathcart, Danny Kemp
• University of Huddersfield with James Lashmar
• University of Manchester with Luke Torjussen

2012 Criteria

An entry must be a digital artefact - such as a website, mobile application or animation. Submissions should demonstrate creativity or technical ingenuity in the design or creation of the artefact.

Entries are welcomed from any further or higher educational institution up to a maximum of one for any one course. Each entry can be the work of a single student chosen by the institution from individual entries by different students, or it can be a collaborative work involving a number of students. The work should have been completed by students while studying at the institution as part of their course work at some time between April 2011 and March 2012.

Award History

Winner 2011

University of Central Lancashire with Matt Slade and Naseem Naeem

The judges said

The winning entry here combined a great idea with dazzling execution. The result wowed the judges who praised its professionalism and predicted a bright future for its creators in their chosen industry.

Entrant’s description

The brief for this project was to create a piece of communication to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Sonic The Hedgehog.

Shortlist 2011

• Manchester Metropolitan University Computing - James Antrobus
• Salford University - Alex Fenton
• The Manchester College - Joseph Ackerley
• University of Central Lancashire - Matt Slade and Naseem Naeem

Criteria 2011

An entry must be a digital artefact - such as a website, mobile application or animation. Submissions should demonstrate creativity or technical ingenuity in the design or creation of the artefact. Entries are welcomed from any further or higher educational institution up to a maximum of one for any one course. Each entry can be the work of a single student chosen by the institution from individual entries by different students, or it can be a collaborative work involving a number of students.

Winner 2010

Andreas Linden of University of Central Lancashire

The judges said

"In choosing the winner in this category, the judges agreed that there is no better advertisment for an educational establishment than that its students produce great work, and that’s exactly what the 2010 Little Chip winner did as a key part of one of the judges’ overall favourite entries this year."

Entrant’s description

'Nosey Parker' is the only car park location application for the iPhone covering the UK. It gives the user the nearest and safest locations, cheapest prices and further details of over 13,400 car parks – that is 1,8 million car parking spaces – across the country. With an estimated 16,000 car parks in the UK, 'Nosey Parker' gives the user access to the largest and most up-to-date database on the iPhone. Reached no.23 in the Apple Apps Store on 2/3/2010. Project produced on work placement at Stardotstar, Manchester

Shortlist 2010

• Andreas Linden - University of Central Lancashire

The judges set a minimum standard for shortlisting any Big Chip category and felt only one of the student entries met this standard.

Criteria 2010

Entries must be a digital artefact - such as a website, mobile application or animation - that could be used to promote some aspect of the entrant educational institution. Submissions should demonstrate creativity in the design of the artefact or in the way it is used to promote the institution, or both.

One entry is allowed from each educational institution. This can be the work of a single student chosen from individual entries by different students, or it can be a collaborative work involving a number of students.