b'Branch newsASEG newswith cold hard cash would arrive at myinformative talks. In that same month,(WA) Student Award certificates to doorstep any day now if I agreed to letin spite of a COVID-19 change-up (just athree of the four awardees: Partha Brisbane have that conference. I totallymonth delay), we were finally able to hostPratim Mandal of Curtin University, consented, of course :)our first social event since last Christmas:Mahtab Rashidifard of UWA, and I know everyone is a little fatigued if notWAs Social Networking and Lawn BowlingSofya Popik of Curtin University broken by so much on-screen time, butevent that came off darn well. Special(Muhammad Atif Iqbal also of Curtin the AEGC 2021 virtual programme looksthanks to Darren Hunt who organisedUniversity was unable to attend the to be a cracker, and I hope you will takethis for our local Members - and to theceremony, unfortunately). These four advantage of the unique situation toLeederville Sporting Club for a nice venue. deserving students were given grants attend online.to go to this years AEGC in Brisbane.Next up in June, two of our WA committee Thong Huynhmembers (Darren Hunt and Tom Hoskins)The rest of the night (except for the vicpresident@aseg.org.au attended and presented at St Stephensfood and drinks) was given over to Dave School Career Expo on 1 June, andLawie of Imdex, who presented both an explained to the young students just howinteresting and thought-provoking talk Western Australia cool it was to be geophysicists. Not a badwith his take on the future of mining and start for the month. what Imdex is developing for that future. Weve had a fairly busy May and June inNot doing that talk justice, Im afraid.WA, and things should continue like thatFollowing that, in the same month, was through the rest of the year. First up, wea successful face-to-face Tech Night atStay safe and healthy everyone.hosted two webinars in May: the first byYagan Square. We started that off with Per Avseth and the second by ShuvajitTom Hoskin, our WA Student AwardTodd Mojesky Bhattacharya, both very interesting andChair, who presented our 2020-2021wapresident@aseg.org.auWinners at the WA Branch social networking and lawn bowling event. Left to right: Regis Neroni, KathMcKenna and Helen Anderson. Darren Hunt and Tom Hoskins at the School Career ExpoWA Branch Tech Night presenter, Dave Lawie of ImdexWA Branch Student Award Ceremony. Left to right: Todd Mojesky (MC), Partha Mandal (awardee), Mahtab Rashidifard (awardee), and Sofya Popik (awardee).AUGUST 2021 PREVIEW 6'