The moment you’ve all been waiting for has arrived! Our judges have selected six teams to advance to the finals of this year’s Next Generation Explorers Award challenge at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) online convention.
As recently announced, PDAC has decided to reschedule the convention due to the current COVID public health restrictions in Ontario. PDAC 2022 will now be hosted in-person in Toronto from June 13-15 and online from June 28-29.
In addition, the 2023 NGEA™ challenge is now open! We encourage everyone to organise a team and apply today!
Here are this year’s six finalists (in no particular order):
Liam Maw (Institut national de la recherche scientifique), Taylor Tracey Kyryliuk, Marc Lorin Faßbender, Christopher Galley (Memorial University of Newfoundland), & Ryley Penner
University of Ottawa, Canada
Flin Flon DatasetTeam Shamrock
Joseph Frizon De Lamott, Alexandre LEBOULCH (UQAC), Valentin Oge, Remi Naulot (UQAC), Théophile Cholet & Anae LEMAIRE
UniLaSalle, France
Tellus Programme DatasetMuki Team
David Portocarrero (University of Tasmania), Marianella Guerrero, Renato Andre Santisteban Suarez, Alicia Rodriguez (mentor), Martin Emmanuel Tapia Peralta, Anderson Jose Pierola Rimac, Yamila Naydim Pari Rodriguez & Manuel Martin Ego Aguirre Madrid
Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (UNI), Peru
Quesnel Trough DatasetTerradeus
Robiah al Wardah, Tim Packulak, Sharlotte Mkhonto, Collette Pilsworth, Alutsyah Luthfian (The University of Auckland), Allie Surrette, Benjamin Saadia, McLean Trott & Neeraj Nainwal
Queen’s University, Canada
Ngamiland, Botswana DatasetGetAI
Halleluya Ekandjo (iCRAG), Robert Watson, Xiaolong Wei (University of Houston), Prithwijit Chakraborti & J. Caleb Chappell (Colorado School of Mines)
University College Dublin (UCD)
Tellus Programme Dataset
To find out more about the Frank Arnott Next Generation Explorers’ Award visit the website.
