Forever Keele 17
further research being made. Funding
requested was between £300 and
£10,000.
Those successful projects were as
follows:
• Hosting of an Animal Assisted
Therapy day to improve mental
well-being, organised by the
Student Union
• A better PA system and equipment
for the KPA Clubhouse
• New furniture for the Student
Union kitchen space • • Equipment and training for a Drug
& Alcohol awareness week, run by
Student Services Sponsorship of an English
Universities Hockey Season 2019-
20 ambassador
• A tree planting initiative around
campus, to encourage people to
vote in the KeeleSU election Purchase of Stage Lighting by the
Keele Drama Society
•
• A conductor for Keele Show Choir
•
Basic training equipment for the
Men’s and Women’s rugby teams
to help with rehabilitation and
encourage new, inexperienced
members
• New team equipment for the
Men’s and Women’s lacrosse
teams
• Rental climbing shoes for the
Keele Mountaineering Club,
to encourage more inclusive
membership
• Purchase for carol music books
for the A Cappella Society for their
concerts and charitable events.
New High Spec Gaming Lab
Sponsored by Overclockers UK, this new laboratory doubles-up as a lecture space
by day and an esports training facility by night.
K
eele University’s School of
Computing and Mathematics
recently opened a new state-of-
the-art gaming station laboratory. “We are very pleased to have opened the Overclockers Gaming Lab within
the School. This is an excellent opportunity to provide students with a great
gaming environment and at the same to have a high spec computer lab for
teaching and research purposes as well.
The computing suite, named after
its sponsor Overclockers UK which
provided 24 high-spec gaming PCs,
will be used by students during their
lectures, and available exclusively to
Keele Esports Society members in
the evenings as a training facility. The generous support from Overclockers is very much appreciated. We are
also very grateful to our technical support team who did a lot of work to make
the lab a reality and the Gaming Society, which initiated the discussions about
the lab and organised the use of the facility by gaming enthusiasts outside of
office hours.
The Overclockers UK Gaming Lab,
based in the Colin Reeves building,
was launched at a gaming event that
saw the suite filled with gamers and
was also streamed online. Keele
Esports Society is open to students
who are interested in all aspects
of competitive gaming, on both the
professional scene and the amateur
level.
Keele’s Hack Society also worked with the Gaming Society to promote the
facility among our students and the University IT Services initially connected
the partners of this project and supported it all along.”
Professor Peter Andras, Head of the School of Computing and
Mathematics