undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses in marine science and technology. A number of awards were announced after the Heads and Tails game. The first of these was the Martin Richmond Award. The award was set up between the SUT and J P Kenny in memory of Martin Richmond who sadly died from cancer in 2006 while chairman of the Aberdeen Branch committee and employed by J P Kenny. The award is made to a postgraduate student studying a subsea-related course under demanding and mitigating personal circumstances. The winner of this year’s award was Sameer Chapgaon, a recent graduate from the Subsea Engineering MSc programme at Aberdeen University. Sameer arrived
Martin Richmond Award: Sameer Chapgaon presented with a Laura Mullen painting in Aberdeen in September 2011 and completed his course while working night shifts to help fund his studies.
Sameer graduated this summer with distinction, and is now employed at Wood Group MCS Kenny.
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