Boost intern steals limelight at regional STEP award

Last week Ahmed Mulla and I went along to the regional heats of the STEP scheme which were hosted by Shell in London. It was a super view from high up in their offices - almost level with the top of the London Eye. Ahmed gave an absolutely super explanation of what he had been up to with us and whilst the judges retired to consider all the projects all the other students congratulated him on his work in the expectation that he would win.

Unfortunately the organisers then announced that he was disqualified as he had been a STEP student before. This was something that he had always pointed out and nobody except the STEP programme director was aware that it was an issue, so it came as rather a shock.

Ahmed was very good about it, but the bottom line has to be tread very warily if considering participating in STEP.