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Three military veterans plus two dependents of military veterans, all lauded already for their first academic steps toward careers as professional geoscientists, have been selected as this year’s recipients of the AAPG Foundation’s Deana and Paul Strunk Military Veterans Scholarships. They become the 54-58th recipients of the Foundation’s MVSP, whose first scholarships were awarded in 2015, and the highest number of awardees for a given year since 2019. The MVSP is among the AAPG Foundation’s most popular and respected initiatives, which Foundation chair Jim McGhay said they are “proud and excited” to provide.

When Henry Agbogun was a boy in his native Nigeria, his love of working outdoors, hiking and the “fascination of rock outcrops” drew him to the world of geology – and for him that proved to be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. But the connection didn’t stop at the rocks. Add to that natural dynamic the admiration and respect he had for his late father, then a teacher at a Nigerian technical school, and his father’s mantra – “He who asks questions never gets lost” – and the seeds of a career in geoscience education were safely planted.

For the AAPG Foundation, call it a matter of one good deed deserving another. That good deed was the Foundation’s decision to help sponsor the AAPG Sustainable Development in Energy Competition, a global contest in which students and young professionals conceive and then create energy projects that promote sustainable development within social, environmental and economic impacts. The ”another” good deed? It’s happening again, and it’s happening right now – an encore opportunity for the Foundation to have a global impact through its support of practical, tangible uses of geosciences.