Abstract

Leveraging GIS Day: From College Admission to Career Success
Track: Learning and Research Lightning Talk
Authors: Andrew Klein, Miriam Olivares , Daniel Goldberg

For five years, Texas A&M University’s GIS Day has exposed students to GIS and highlighted our campus’s GIS accomplishments. This year our GIS day was expanded to three days. It has brought high school students to campus for recruiting. It also engaged former students to strengthen industry relationships for internships and job placement and helped establish a proactive with to revamp GIS curriculum. This session discusses planning, facts and outcomes of our GIS Day.