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Scholarship Program 2018 participants and SCGIS donated laptops |
Our International Scholarship Program is designed to allow conservation GIS practitioners to attend the Esri User Conference and SCGIS Annual Conference held in California every summer and to allow them to take specialized three-week GIS courses organized for the scholarship recipients before the conferences. These courses are provided jointly by SCGIS, Juniper GIS, Esri, UC Davis Information Center for the Environment, and UC Berkeley Blue Oak Ranch Reserve.
This is not a typical scholarship program. It covers only some of the costs affiliated with the travel to and attendance at these events; only on rare occasions are we able to provide awards that cover full costs.
The International Scholarship Program currently targets its support primarily at the regions where SCGIS international chapters and informal conservation GIS communities affiliated with SCGIS are growing or emerging, in an effort to promote further growth of these chapters and communities. However, we encourage our international chapters to extend their outreach beyond their formal country borders, and to embrace colleagues from neighbor regions or even from far away. Browse the international chapters to learn more about the chapter nearest to your area.
INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS: Each year the international scholars represent the best of the best of conservationists using geography and GIS to pursue effective science, educate and change local communities, and discover new ways of protecting species.
TRAIN THE TRAINER TEACHERS (TTT): These are prior scholars who were selected for advanced training to become certified SCGIS Instructors, and are returning to assist the scholarship program with additional instructionand training to expand GIS capacity in their local region.
The 2019 Scholar Program was pre-empted in order to hold the first ever Global Summit Meeting of all TTT participants, some of whom have been teaching SCGIS classes and organizing national SCGIS conferences for a decade. The summit will help determine the future course of this flagship program and permit the trainers to update their ArcGIS skills.
Click here to learn more about this year's participants!