
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 5th year of
studies, having completed a useful internship and gained insight into technical
and professional matters.
Georgios Dafermos is entering his 4th 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.