GIS DAY is WEDNESDAY NOV. 18th !
GIS Day is apart of Geography Awareness week presented by George Mason University's Geography and Geoinformation Science Department. Sounds interesting, but you don't quite know what GIS is? Well to start, GIS stands for Geographic Information Systems. Geographic Information Systems is a largely growing field. GIS is a computer-based system used for capturing, storing, and displaying data on the Earth's surface. People use it to better analyze and visualize spatial patterns and relationships. You may not even realize that you use GIS in your everyday life. Not only does GIS have applications used for geography, but many other fields count on GIS solutions to solve everyday problems. GIS Day attracts students from all different areas of study.
GIS Day allows students to converse with leading GIS-based companies, organizations, and agencies, in which students can gain essential information from professionals in their field of study. Students are also presented with opportunities to show-off individual and group research posters, their mapping techniques, and to be a member in a school-wide humanitarian geodatabase contribution. The week consists of a career and internship fair, guest speakers, presentations and demonstrations, student research poster competitions, a student map competition, and a Map-Off! In the Map-Off, George Mason will be completing against George Washington University to see which school can digitize/map the most areas. This geodatabase contribution will hopefully help in closing data gaps throughout the world.
Come on out!
-Katie
