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<h2 align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Sorry for Cross Postings<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h2 align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">2016 Geospatial Skills Competition</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"> The GeoTech Center is pleased to announce the 2016 Undergraduate Geospatial Technology Skills Competition! The intent of the competition is to showcase the geospatial technology skills
of U.S. undergraduate students. Competing students will create a project that utilizes geospatial technology to address a real-world problem. The student will then present the project and the resulting deliverables as a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#F90000">Poster</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span style="color:black">that
not only highlights their use of geospatial technology, but also demonstrates their communication and presentation skills.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">All materials<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">must</span></u></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>be submitted
no later than midnight Eastern Time on Friday,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">April 29th</span></strong>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">The competition will be judged by a panel of experienced geospatial specialists, and the combined scores from all judges will determine the winners. These winners will receive an<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">all-expense-paid</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>trip
to the 2016 ESRI User Conference in San Diego, CA on June 27 - July 1, 2016. Winning posters will be on display at the 2016 Esri User Conference map gallery.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="color:red">Also we will be selecting a best presentation using open source award too.</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Please check out our website for more information:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.geotechcenter.org/2016-geospatial-skills-competition.html" title="Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link" id="LPlnk643788"><span style="color:purple">http://www.geotechcenter.org/2016-geospatial-skills-competition.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Thomas R. Mueller, Ph.D., GISP</span><span style="color:black">
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</span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red">Advisor: Geography Major with GIS and Emergency Management Concentration</span></b><span style="color:black">
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</span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">Co - Director: Pennsylvania View</span></b><b><span style="color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">"A man never gets to this station in life without being helped, aided, shoved, pushed and prodded to do better." - Johnny Unitas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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