{"id":23045,"date":"2025-12-12T10:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?p=23045"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:59:34","slug":"next-generation-explorers-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/2025\/next-generation-explorers-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Generation Explorers Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Next Generation Explorers Award\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Calling all data enthusiasts!<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Mineral deposits are getting harder to find even as the demand for minerals continues to grow. The&nbsp;<b>Next Generation Explorers Award<\/b>&nbsp;is an international student competition looking to find innovative solutions for making mineral exploration more effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">We are looking for&nbsp;<b>Earth Sciences, Computer Science, and other undergraduate (any level) and\/or graduate students<\/b>&nbsp;to form a multidisciplinary team. No prior experience with geoscience data or mineral potential modelling is needed, although experience working with different types of spatial data, predictive modelling, machine learning, AI, and\/or uncertainty analysis are considered assets for this competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b>Competition Details:<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><b>Prize:<\/b>\u00a0Compete for cash prizes totalling more than\u00a0<b>$14k CAD<\/b><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><b>Team:<\/b>\u00a0Carleton University is seeking to submit one or more teams<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><b>Timeline:<\/b>\u00a0Work starts in\u00a0<b>2026<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b>Interested?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><b>Learn more:<\/b>\u00a0Check out the competition website:\u00a0<a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/pdac.ca\/students\/frank-arnott-award\/about-the-award. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpdac.ca%2Fstudents%2Ffrank-arnott-award%2Fabout-the-award&amp;data=05%7C02%7CKhadijaAbdi%40cunet.carleton.ca%7Cf5f097fa730942fdf2b408de398f5fc3%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C639011485153946523%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=w%2FUfYGwi96gzW9yRN3jYMCdmAWtyDnZCYRySczGsNUg%3D&amp;reserved=0\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">https:\/\/pdac.ca\/students\/frank-arnott-award\/about-the-award<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><b>Join a team:<\/b>\u00a0Please reach out to\u00a0<b>Christopher Lawley<\/b>\u00a0at\u00a0<a title=\"mailto:christopherlawley@cunet.carleton.ca\" href=\"mailto:christopherlawley@cunet.carleton.ca\" data-linkindex=\"1\">christopherlawley@cunet.carleton.ca<\/a>\u00a0before\u00a0<b>January 9<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling all data enthusiasts! Mineral deposits are getting harder to find even as the demand for minerals continues to grow. The&nbsp;Next Generation Explorers Award&nbsp;is an international student competition looking to find innovative solutions for making mineral exploration more effective. We are looking for&nbsp;Earth Sciences, Computer Science, and other undergraduate (any level) and\/or graduate students&nbsp;to form [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35,76,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carleton-news","category-news","category-undergrad-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"news-student"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23049,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23045\/revisions\/23049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}