Robert Wilson from Detmold, a South Australia printing machinist walked away with this year’s GAMAA-LIA Scholarship Prize. He picked up the accolade at last week’s Queensland PICAs awards.
According to Karen Goldsmith, executive director of GAMAA, the judging panel found it extremely difficult to pick the scholarship winner from the eight graduates selected from around Australia.
“There was really nothing in it at the end, any one of these excellent graduates would be a worthy winner,” she says.
NSW’s Scott Mohammed from SONY DADC received the LIA Printing Industries Future Leaders Award as runner up, and an all expenses paid trip to Drupa 2012.
Goldsmith says all graduates vying for the prize attended two plant tours at Craft Inprint and Salmat in Brisbane prior to sitting down for the interview process, where they had to explain how they would use the scholarship fund if they won.
Pictured: GAMAA-LIA Scholarship Prize Award Winner Rober Wilson (centre) with Roger Harrington (SA) left and Anthony Travella from employer Detmold.
Pictured: LIA Printing Industries Future Leaders Award Winner Scott Mohammed (centre), on left employer David Wallings (Sony DADC) and David Wells (LIA NSW)
Pictured: The Graduates for 2011 (l-r) Scott Mohammed (NSW) Andrew Elliot (QLD) Chadd Edwards (SA) Dayane Knox (NSW) Robert Wilson (SA) Corey Hunter (WA) front Tessa Mills (VIC) Samantha Alford (VIC)
