The Patrick Pleass Memorial Award is awarded in memory of Patrick Pleass, who was a key contributor to the educational outcomes for Deakin IT and Computer Science courses.

An award of $1000 is presented to the highest achieving second-year undergraduate student enrolled in an Information Technology degree at Deakin University.

The 2019 recipient is Alex Donald who is completing a Bachelor of Computer Science at Deakin University.

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