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The RAC and IOR National Student of the Year Award is now open for entries. Raise the profile of young talent, the training centres that prepare them and your business. Find out more about how you can make your nominations.
The National Student of the Year Awards is designed to recognise and reward the industry’s best up-and-coming engineers. Once again, the finalists will have their achievements acknowledged in front of an audience of more than 500 professionals at the prestigious Cooling Industry Awards on September 25th at the London Hilton on Park Lane.
Entries are now open so if you have an engineer in training who has stood out from the crowd this year, and gone above and beyond the call of duty, then get thinking about your nominations!
Entry deadline: 21 June
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