The Victorias Awards - Celebrating Excellence at Victoria University

12 Dec 2014 - 19:59:24 in Achievement
The Postgraduate Student Association (PGSA) has a long standing tradition of recognising postgraduate excellence through the Victorias Awards which was hosted on Thursday 27 November 2014 in the Hunter Lounge. The Victorias Awards provide the opportunity to celebrate excellence in postgraduate research within Victoria University. They also recognise the support of postgraduate students, academic and general staff who inspire students with their verve and passion.

Congratulations to Engineering PhD student Henry Williams for being awarded the Landers Postgraduate Award.

Henry’s past leadership and continuing mentoring of Victoria Engineering Club is particularly noteworthy as it provides not only a forum for postgraduates to interact/network/socialise, but also link with undergraduate students. This link is vital in research led teaching, setting aspirational standards and encouraging our students to become postgraduates researchers themselves. His leadership of the NI-ARC (National Instruments-Autonomous Robotic Challenge) team directly resulted in it winning the Australasian competition in 2013, which gave widespread credibility to our postgraduate programmes. Henry is a well-regarded first year tutor, where he engages and encourages students through his passion for the subject. His volunteering for FutureInTech has helped our outreach demonstrate to secondary school students that studying at university, including eventual postgraduate study, is an awesome goal within their reach. Henry is also the student chair of the IEEE chapter of the Computational Intelligence.

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