By Lance Myburgh
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The Invictus Games, founded by Prince Harry in 2014, celebrate the strength and perseverance of wounded, injured, and sick service personnel and veterans through sports.
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“I wanted to try to support young talent within the realm of my own resources,” Rowland explained. “The company I recently founded, which automates the organisation of media using AI to power a search engine for story-tellers, provided a perfect opportunity for committed young people who wanted to gain real-world work experience to also benefit from earning money to support their studies.”
The small media team, led by Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Student Sport Media and Marketing Coordinator Ovayo Novukela, participated remotely in this initiative, blending media, sports, and technology. The project aligned with the team’s academic and media skills with real-world applications. Under Novukela’s leadership, the team was responsible for a tagging process that informs the training of the search engine and enabled global audiences to access thousands of important storytelling moments from the Games.
Novukela emphasised that students, particularly in the media field, not only gained insight into a high-pressure industry but were also “exposed to an international stage, creating opportunities and building portfolios that are advantageous in South Africa’s competitive job market.”
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