The Patrick Pleass Memorial Award 2020 is awarded in memory of Patrick Pleass. Patrick was a key contributor to the educational outcomes for Deakin IT and Computer Science courses and the originator of the Allocate Plus suite of software. JDR Software established this award in fond memory of Pat.

The 2020 recipient is Sean Emery.

Sean is completing a Bachelor of Computer Science at Deakin University and has achieved great results so far. The last 12 months have been a challenge for everyone, so achieving such outstanding results deserves to be commended.

Congratulations Sean! We wish you all the very best with your future endeavours!

The Patrick Pleass Memorial Award 2020 is $1000 and is presented to the highest achieving, second-year undergraduate student, enrolled in an Information Technology degree at Deakin University.