{"id":2427,"date":"2021-12-21T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2021-12-21T11:00:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T10:00:24","slug":"the-mighty-oak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/2021\/12\/21\/the-mighty-oak\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mighty Oak Award!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All members of the Grounds Team took part in a new Mighty Oak Award knock-out competition in 2021 which ran for eight months until the winner was declared. The competition included questions on health and safety, horticulture, arboriculture and some unusual statistics in the industry!<\/p>\n<p>The competition helped improve working relationships, highlighted the combined horticultural and arboricultural knowledge and expertise of the team and also showed the competitive nature of some of the team members!<\/p>\n<p>The award trophy was created in-house from felled timber on campus, which not only made it sustainable, personal but also free!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2431\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2431\" style=\"width: 791px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2021\/12\/Mighy-Oak-Award-Tophy-FINAL-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2431 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2021\/12\/Mighy-Oak-Award-Tophy-FINAL-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"791\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2021\/12\/Mighy-Oak-Award-Tophy-FINAL-1.jpg 791w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2021\/12\/Mighy-Oak-Award-Tophy-FINAL-1-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2021\/12\/Mighy-Oak-Award-Tophy-FINAL-1-676x1024.jpg 676w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2021\/12\/Mighy-Oak-Award-Tophy-FINAL-1-768x1164.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mighty Oak Award 2021 trophy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2433\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2433\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2021\/12\/Mighty-Oak-Award-Winner-Marcus-Denne-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2433 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2021\/12\/Mighty-Oak-Award-Winner-Marcus-Denne-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"767\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcus, the proud winner of the Mighty Oak Award 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All members of the Grounds Team took part in a new Mighty Oak Award knock-out competition in 2021 which ran for eight months until the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,59,75,93,193,201,217,219],"tags":[305,525,527,593,911,1039,1651],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Mighty Oak Award! 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