{"id":6283,"date":"2020-09-22T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T07:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/news\/3393-vravefsi-apofoiton-pliroforikis-tou-mitropolitikoy-kollegiou-apo-to-british-computer-society-bcs\/"},"modified":"2021-07-29T13:34:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T10:34:59","slug":"3393-vravefsi-apofoiton-pliroforikis-tou-mitropolitikoy-kollegiou-apo-to-british-computer-society-bcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/news\/3393-vravefsi-apofoiton-pliroforikis-tou-mitropolitikoy-kollegiou-apo-to-british-computer-society-bcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan College&#8217;s graduates were honored at the first British Computer Society Awards 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stylianos Kavalaris, Fragkiskos Emmanouil Kioupakis and Georgios Kechagias,\u00a0<strong>three\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Metropolitan College<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s graduates were\u00a0<strong>honored<\/strong>\u00a0at the first prestigious award ceremony organized by the\u00a0<strong>British Computer Society (BCS), the Chartered Institute for IT, Hellenic Section.<\/strong>\u00a0The three\u00a0<strong>distinguished IT graduates<\/strong>, having successfully attended and completed the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/masters-postgraduate-degrees\/faculty-of-computing\/msc-information-security-and-computer-forensics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSc Information Security &amp; Computer Forensics<\/a>\u00a0programme of study, received the\u00a0<strong>BCS Award of Excellence<\/strong>\u00a0for their\u00a0<strong>exceptional academic performance, skills and talents<\/strong>\u00a0during their studies at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Metropolitan College<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0<strong>distinction<\/strong>\u00a0is a key component of\u00a0<strong>professional success<\/strong>, enabling graduates to\u00a0<strong>upgrade<\/strong>\u00a0their\u00a0<strong>career<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>expand<\/strong>\u00a0their p<strong>rofessional opportunities<\/strong>\u00a0in the Computing sector and Technology industry. It is worth mentioning that these graduates are already following a career path as\u00a0<strong>executive members in multinational technology companies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The prestigious award ceremony took place at the\u00a0<strong>British Embassy<\/strong>\u00a0in the presence of the\u00a0<strong>British Ambassador, Kate Smith<\/strong>\u00a0who welcomed the distinguished graduates and congratulated them. The ceremony was attended by the\u00a0<strong>President of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT<\/strong>, Hellenic Section,\u00a0<strong>Mr Christos Stavroulakis<\/strong>\u00a0who also gave an\u00a0<strong>inspirational speech<\/strong>\u00a0mentioning the graduates&#8217; hard work and achievements. Metropolitan College was represented by\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/bachelor-degrees-undergraduate-programs\/faculty-computing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Head of Faculty of Computing of Metropolitan College<\/a>, Mr Markos Plytas.<\/strong>\u00a0During his short greeting speech, referring to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/bachelor-degrees-undergraduate-programs\/faculty-computing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Metropolitan College&#8217;s Faculty of Computing<\/a>\u00a0mission, said: &#8220;Our priority is to monitor the guidance given to our profession by BCS in order to have graduates that will apply their knowledge and competences in an ethical and efficient manner towards common welfare&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>See more photos from the BCS Awards 2020 prestigious ceremony at the Gallery below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stylianos Kavalaris, Fragkiskos Emmanouil Kioupakis and Georgios Kechagias,\u00a0three\u00a0Metropolitan College&#8216;s graduates were\u00a0honored\u00a0at the first prestigious award ceremony organized by the\u00a0British Computer Society (BCS), the Chartered Institute for IT, Hellenic Section.\u00a0The three\u00a0distinguished IT graduates, having successfully attended and completed the\u00a0MSc Information Security &amp; Computer Forensics\u00a0programme of study, received the\u00a0BCS Award of Excellence\u00a0for their\u00a0exceptional academic performance, skills and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-6283","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-of-computing","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=6283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7249\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=6283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=6283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mitropolitiko.edu.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=6283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}