b'Education matters prize of C$5k for the team with the highestjudges score. Three new prize categories of C$3k each have also been created: 1) Innovation, 2) Data integration and 3) Impact & Exploration Significance.Teams are encouraged to be multi-disciplinary and include members from other fields of study (i.e., engineers, data scientists, economists, social scientists, etc.), and its important to note each team must meet a minimum of two aspects of Team Diversity for entry into the NGEA (discipline/specialisation, gender, nationality, culture, etc.). The deadline to enter a submission is October 31, 2021, with the finalist awards and presentations occurring at the PDAC 2022 convention.As the NGEA is an international competition, the challenge is open to exploring opportunities to host future renditions of the event in other locations to help encourage more universities to participate. and former Chief Scientist at Natural Resources Canada.Marc GasparottoOn a personal note, we would like to also Theo Aravanisacknowledge Peter Spora, who was also Frank Arnott - Next Generation Explorersone of this years judges. Prior to sadly Awardpassing away last December, Peter made nextgenerationexplorersaward@gmail.com a personal financial contribution to the award. The success of the NGEA was Acknowledgments built on the strong foundation laid by the previous Frank Arnott Award (FAA) 2017 With teams, coordinators, judges,in which Australian universities figured volunteers and sponsors operating inprominently in the student category with various languages and different timethe top prize going to Adelaide and the zones, the 2021 NGEA truly was anthird to Macquarie.extraordinary exercise of buildingThe FAA and NGEA were founded in bridges and creating communityhonour of Frank Arnott (1951-2009), an within the mining and explorationexceptional exploration industry leader industry. The NGEA Executive andwho three decades ago, championed Organising committees are grateful forinnovative techniques and the the support we received from everyoneintegrationmultidisciplinary data which involved, including our panel of judgesstill underpin exploration campaigns consisting of Dave Andrews from goldworldwide.sponsor Rio Tinto, Mary Doherty from the Colorado School of Mines, Eun- If you would like to get involved in Jung Holden from the University ofthe NGEA as a mentor, sponsor or Western Australia, John Miller fromparticipants, please visitgold sponsorBHP, Sally Pehrsson fromwww.frankarnottaward.com, the Geological Survey of Canada andfollow us on social media or email Donna Kirkwood, independent advisornextgenerationexplorersaward@gmail.com.41 PREVIEW JUNE 2021'