For those of you who
have college bound high school or college
students!
Several of the
geospatial and industry specific professional societies offer scholarships to high
school, undergraduate, and graduate students. These scholarships have often been under utilized
in the past. Please let your college bound 4-Her’s who are involved in GIS know about these scholarship opportunities – because of their 4-H
geospatial experience, along with their interests in the
environment, science, engineering, etc, they have additional qualifications. Remind your 4-H youth to keep these
organizations in mind as they go through college, some of the
scholarships are for degree seeking students who have successfully
completed a couple of years of college.
In addition to
scholarships, these are good networking organizations for 4-H clubs; you’ll find career information, conferences, access to
possible mentoring, or professional speakers, etc.
Information about the
National level scholarships are usually posted on-line however there are
often regional or local chapters that also offer additional scholarships – you may need to contact those individual chapters
personally as they don’t always post scholarship information.
Here are just a few places to begin
the search, just explore the organizations web
sites to find the scholarship information (if it’s been posted). Sometimes it’s under chapters, careers, education,
students, contests and awards, or hidden in some other area of the web site.
www.asprs.org
: The Imaging & Geospatial Information Society (applications due Dec 3, 2007)
www.gita.org:
Geospatial Information & Technology Association
www.acsm.net:
American Congress on Surveying & Mapping and member organizations. (applications due Oct 15,
2007)
www.nspsmo.org:
National Society of Professional Surveyors
www.aag.org:
Association of American Geographers (check out
educational grants for programs too)
www.planning.org:
American Planning Association
www.safnet.org:
Society of American Foresters
www.awwa.org:
American Water Works Association
www.scgis.org:
Society for Conservation GIS (provides
scholarships to conservation GIS conferences)
www.cartogis.org:
Cartography and Geographic Information Society
(application due Dec. 15, 2007)
www.usgif.org: US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation: (watch for 2008 scholarship announcement, application deadline probably June 1, 2008).
In addition to the
links above, do a web search on “GIS
Scholarship” or
“geospatial scholarship” and see what you get
back, there are many local and user groups that offer scholarships – there are
too many to include here.
Esther
Worker
eworker@esri.com
ESRI 4-H Program Manager
1 International Ct
Broomfield CO 80021
303.449.7779 ext 8216
1- 800-447-9778 ext 18216
