The Frank Arnott - Next Generation Explorers Award (NGEA™) is an international competition where teams of geoscience university students collaborate to transform datasets into their interpretation of the subsurface geology and mineralisation targets.

The 2024 finalists will present their submissions and compete for the grand prize of CAN $5,000 and three CAN $3,000 prizes for the teams with the highest scores in Innovation, Data Integration, and Impact & Exploration Significance.

This event comprises each team’s five-minute pitch, a panel discussion, and a post-award poster session:
Team Presentations: 2:00 - 2:45 pm
Panel Discussion: 2:45 - 3:25 pm
Poster Session: 3:25 - 4:00 pm

Pacha Team - North West Province, Queensland Dataset (~2:05 pm)
Sebastian Yassir Espinoza Guzmán, Jairo Ocsa Coaguilla, Marco Augusto Misael Robles Ancajima, Katherine Milagros López Alvarez, Brayam Andre Ortiz Benavente, Jhon Aldo Amasifuen Leiva, & María Alexandra Ramírez Torres
Universidad Católica del Norte (Chile), Universidad Nacional San Agustin (Peru), Pontificia Universidad Católical del Perú (Peru), Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (Ecuador), and the University of Queensland (Australia)

Rumi Team - Creighton-Flin Flon Dataset (~2:10 pm)
Raul Montesinos, Gianfranco Garcia, Stiven Checalla, Danfer Huaman, Joseph Torres, Kevin Gomez, Bregette Falcon, Anthonny Fernandez, Joan Vega & Skye Hart
Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (Peru), Universidad Nacional del Altiplano (Peru), and the Colorado School of Mines (USA)

Pyrites of the Caribbean - Gawler Craton Dataset (~2:15 pm)
Rumi Daruso, Satyaveer Pattanaik, Joseph Taylor, Britney Russell & Daniel Gamble
University of Adelaide, South Australia

Tethyan Explorers - Quesnel Trough Dataset (~2:20 pm)
Koray Taşbiçen, Uğur Şahin, Kaan Onat, & Algan Mert Yaşar
Colorado School of Mines (USA), the Technical University of Munich (Germany), University of Ottawa (Canada), Utrecht University (Netherlands)

Pathfinders - North West Province, Queensland Dataset (~2:25 pm)
Collins Gogoe Adoko, Andrés Canales, Rita M Teal, Harriet Naakai Tetteh, & Samuel Mensah
Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan), Universidad del Desarrollo (Chile), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (USA), and the University of British Columbia (Canada)

Rolling Stones - Creighton-Flin Flon Dataset (~2:30 pm)
Yann Mpaku Waku, Rowin Marais, Daniel Reuben Ferreira, Luke Roos Carlton, Ethan Mack, and Josia Shilunga
Stellenbosch University, South Africa