2024 Esri Innovation Program Students of the Year
The Esri Innovation Program (EIP) is proud to announce the 2024 Student of Year nominations. EIP encourages students and educators to create innovative applications using ArcGIS technology - as part of research projects, course work, or skills development.
Every year, university members of EIP select one student to be their Student of the Year recipient. A benefit for the nominated student is a cash prize, certificate, and Esri Press book awarded to those who are nominated as Students of the Year.
This Story Map Collection highlights the 2024 projects – thank you to all the students for their inspirational work, and to their mentors for the support and encouragement.
Out of all submissions, one student is selected as International Student of the Year and invited to attend the 2024 Education Summit and 2024 Esri User Conference. This year, this special nomination goes to Cathryn Hunt, a student in Penn State’s MGIS Program, Recipient of the Penn State EIP Student of the Year nomination.
Congratulations to Cathryn for her work on this From Selfish to Selfless Routing project - an application which helps alleviate traffic congestion with GIS routing apps. The blueprint incorporates a selfless routing approach by distributing high-volume traffic flows over multiple routes and assigning vehicles to routes based on route capacity.
Thank you, Cathryn, for your wonderful work and creativity, and congratulations to all Students of the Year!