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Student Competition Winners

The prize presentation for the HLST Student Competition took place on Tuesday 22 June at Middlesex University.

The competition was won by a team of five students from Middlesex: Emma Lampard, Sophia Hadjicosti, Dipak Vaghjiani, Mishaal Al-Moften and Rojob Monsour Ali.

Student Competition Winners
(above: three of the winning team, Emma, Sophia and Dipak with their tutor, Sukhbinder Barn)

The competition challenged students to design a logo and slogan that would represent the meaning of the Olympic and Paralympic Games for young people. The winning entry took inspiration from the Apple, Google Chrome and Burger King logos, accompanied by the slogan 'Dare to Dream'.

The prize of £350 was presented by HLST Director Clive Robertson who complimented the winning entry's 'excellent design and clear rationale'. Download the Winning Entry.

top left L-R: Rhonda Cohen(Head of London Sport Institute), Sophia Hadjicosti, Emma Lampard, Melvyn Keen (Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Middlesex University), Dipak Vaghjiani, Sukhbinder Barn (Lecturer in Marketing and Enterprise, Middlesex University) & Clive Robertson (HLST Director).

top right L-R: Emma Lampard, Dipak Vaghjiani, Sukhbinder Barn and Sophia Hadjicosti.

bottom left L-R: Emma Lampard, Clive Robertson, Dipak Vaghjiani, Rhonda Cohen and Sophia Hadjicosti.

bottom right L-R: Emma Lampard, Clive Robertson, Dipak Vaghjiani, Rhonda Cohen and Sophia Hadjicosti.

More photos of the competition winners meeting Higher Education Academy chair Prof Sir Bob Burgess can be found at the Higher Education Academy website.

Learning Legacies on Facebook

We have started a Facebook group to allow students to share and discuss their ideas about the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics.

The group '2,012 Students' aims to reach 2,012 members in an Olympic record time..and then try to beat it for next 2,012!

Click Here to Join the Group

Student Competition

Winning Logo

A team of students from Middlesex University have won the HLST Student Competition 2010.

The competition challenged students to design a new symbol/logo and a one line slogan representing the meaning of the Olympic and Paralympic Games for young people today.

The winning entry was created by a team of five BA Business Management students from Middlesex University: Emma Lampard, Sophia Hadjicosti, Dipak Vaghjiani, Mishaal Al-Moften and Rojob Monsour Ali.

Their logo took inspiration from the Apple, Google Chrome and Burger King logos and used the slogan 'Dare to Dream'.

Download Winning Entry and Rationale (844kb .doc)

More information on the competition can be found at the HLST Website.

Coubertin Awards Student Essay Competition

Ethics, Business and Sport

The 2010 Coubertin Student Essay Competition encourages teams of two to four students to collaborate on work to explore themes involving ethics, business and sport.

Suggested themes include:

Social responsibility:
How can businesses learn from sport to fight against discrimination, exclusion and inequality?
Environmental impact:
Save Today, Save Tomorrow: Explore the related issues for businesses in following the Olympic footprint 'towards a one planet 2012’
Reaching the global audience:
Celebrating diversity and bridging communities: Can businesses enhance cross-cultural communication following the Olympic example?
Code of conduct:
Should all students, like sportsmen, be made to take oaths to act ethically throughout their careers? How should this be enforced?

The competition has a first prize of £2000 for the winning student group and a second prize of £1000 for the runner up student group.

The deadline for entry is 30th June 2010.

For more information Visit the Competition Website.

HLST Student Conference

10 March 2010 - Bournemouth University

Organised by 2nd year Event management students from Bournemouth University with support from the members of the HLST Learning Legacies SIG, the HLST Student Conference brought together 44 student delegates from UK universities to explore the theme "Olympic and Paralympic Values: me, my course, my career".

The purpose of the conference was to explore the Olympic and Paralympic values and to look at their relevance to students, to courses of study, and to students future careers, as long lasting legacies of the London Games. The conference features the following speakers:

Dr Darren Kenny OBE
Darren Kenny is a gold medal winning, world record holding member of the GB Paralympic and Devid Mellor Cycle Teams. After winning the National Disabled Circuit Championships and a silver medal on the track at Manchester he was invited to join Team GB. He currently holds all 5 track world records for his class. In Beijing he won 4 golds and 1 silver medal and he recently received a doctorate from Bournemouth University and becase an honorary doctor of arts.
Gareth Smith
Gareth Smith is the Further and Higher Education Adviser at LOCOG. He is also the head of Podium. His role at LOCOG is to maximise the engagement of both sectors with the Games across a number of areas, including the education programmes and the Cultural Olympiad. Gareth has extensive experience in student engagement after working aith a number of organisation, including the National Union of Students.
Download Gareth Smith's presentation (4mb .pptx)
Dikaia Chatziefstastiou
Dr Dikaia Chatziefstastiou is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport and Leisure at Canterbury Christ Church University. She is the inaugural winner of Coubertin Prize 2008 awarded by the International Pierre de Coubertin Committee and the International Olympic Committee, and her most recent work on Regional Games has also been funded by the IOC. Her current research interests include Japan and China's revived interests in the Olympic Movement, diffusion of Olympic sport throgh regional games, and a review of the evidence base for developing a health and physical activity participation legacy from the 2012 Olympic Games.
Download Dikaia Chatziefstastiou's presentation (1mb .ppt)
Sarah Kennedy
Sarah graduated from Bournemouth University in 2009 with a BA(Hons) in Communication and Media. She also has eight years experience in the hospitality industry, three of these being the head supervisor of a fine dining resturant. Sarah has gone on to be Team Dorset's 2012 legacy assistant. Team Dorset is about helping Dorset benefit from hosting the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Weymouth and Portland and leaving a significant legacy.
Download Sarah Kennedy's presentation (4mb .ppt)

"I thoroughly enjoyed the day and ... to get to present directly to students. This was very much the first national event of its kind where students used the Values of the games ... and I thought it was a tremendous success. Congratulations."
Gareth Smith, Head of Podium,
The Further and Higher Education Unit for the 2012 Games.