NZILA Canterbury/Westland Branch Chair, Matt Lester attended the Lincoln University Prizegiving held on Friday 14th May 2021 and presented the following awards:

NZILA/Robin Gay Award 2020
Nicole Tune

NZILA Award of Excellence 2020 - Best student in the second to last year
Joanna Kent

NZILA Award of Excellence 2020 - Best student in the third to last year
Isobel Happy & Alexandra Rooney

Robin Gay, the namesake of this award was a NZILA Life Member who passed away in December 2008. Mr Gay was honoured with Life Membership of the Institute during 2001 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the development of the Institute and that of the landscape architecture profession. He was also Vice-President of IFLA (International Federation of Landscape Architects) in the early 1980s.