GSS Awards Student Fellowships

GeoSpatial Services is proud to announce the first-ever winners of our new GSS Fellowship: Connor Corey, Michelle Doering, Theresa DeGross, and Paulrisa Suah. These incoming students will receive a first-year $5,000 scholarship and a part-time paid internship with GSS throughout their college career, if they so choose, as well as ongoing professional and career development opportunities. The new students will begin their time at GSS by working on National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) projects.

The goals of the fellowship program are to attract high-potential undergraduate students and provide them with experiential learning opportunities that will prepare them for the workplace within their chosen disciplines. Additionally, this program will foster on-going collaboration between GSS and the University’s academic disciplines. GIS underpins many industries and current technologies, such as health care services, sales and marketing, emergency response, crime analysis, climate change, real estate, and environmental management. The U.S. Department of Labor predicts that GIS skills will be in high demand over the next decade, with average annual salaries of $70,000.

GSS Fellows (l-r) Michelle Doering, Theresa DeGross, and Connor Corey (not pictured: Paulrisa Suah)