This year SNAME organized its Annual Meeting in Bellevue, comprising a series of events that attracted the academic and industrial elite. The Greek Student Section had a significant presence in yet another Annual Meeting thanks to our sponsors' courteous support.

Attendants of the Annual Meeting

Acknowledging the great academic importance of such an event, our intention was to fund as many students as we could. We received three applications that covered the set criteria and we accepted all of them. More specifically:

                       
  Evangelos Loukatos is in his final year of studies, working on his diploma thesis and simultaneously working in the technical department of a major shipping company.
  Efstathios Karlis is entering his 5^th year of studies, having completed a useful internship and gained insight into technical and professional matters.
 Georgios Dafermos is entering his 4^th year of studies being a great student and an active student member.

Two Officers of the Greek Student Section also attended the Annual Meeting, Michael Foteinos (Chairman) and Ilias Soultanias (Secretary/Treasurer). In the above picture you can see the Greek delegation together with Professor Papanikolaou, Chairman of the Greek Section.

 

Activities in the Annual Meeting

  The Greek delegation departed from Athens at November,4th, 2013 and the following day, we all volunteered in the preparations of the Annual Meeting which was greatly appreciated by all SNAME Officers. The volunteering work from our Section did not stop there, as all five delegates also served as Assistant Presiding Officers in papers presented at the conference, some of us more than once.

It has been a great experience attending the Technical program, job fair, roundtable discussions, expo, and the networking in the Social events. We are proud, that we sang our National Anthem in the annual banquet carrying on the tradition and that the Greek Section was honored as a Top Super Section for a second consecutive year.

 

Awards and Achievements

Our Student Section has also achieved some remarkable accomplishments during the Annual Meeting.

Two of our students (Ilias Soultanias, Efstathios Karlis) were awarded in the student design competition winning the second and third place respectively.

 Our microsite and social media presence won the first place at the student Microsite Competition receiving a prize of 250$ and an honorable mention at the Awards Luncheon. In order to strengthen our nomination we created a presentation in which we summarized our Microsite features. In this presentation we strongly mentioned the importance of our sponsors' help.

 

Last but not least, Ilias Soultanias was elected in the position of "Electronic Media Chair" of the Student Steering Committee.In the picture on the right hand side you can see all the newly elected members of the SSC.
We consider important to mention that in the discussion that followed the elections the Greek Student Section was referred as the most successful international one and the most capable of mentoring newly founded international sections.

All these would not have been accomplished without the support the Greek Section of SNAME and our sponsors. To this, we feel grateful that they gave us the chance to have this great experience and hope that we have represented, and continue to represent the Greek Section in the most appropriate way.

 

 

 

Our SNAME NTUA delegation representing the section at the AM has arrived and they are already participating at the conference's technical program as Assisting Presiding Officers.