2025 Esri Innovation Program Students of the Year
The Esri Innovation Program (EIP) is proud to announce the 2025 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. Benefits for the nominated students are cash prizes, certificates, and Esri Press book - awarded to those who are nominated as Students of the Year.
This Story Map Collection highlights the 2025 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 2025 Esri Education Summit and/or 2025 Esri User Conference. This year, this special nomination goes to Christina Zorenboehmer, a student at University of Salzburg, Recipient of the University of Salzburg EIP Student of the Year nomination.
Congratulations to Christina for her work on this Semantic Big EO Data/Sen2Cube.at project. Currently, many EO data cubes such as the semantic EO data cube Sen2Cube.at (in-house development at the Department of Geoinformatics at Salzburg) operate as powerful, yet largely isolated systems. Due to the vast amounts of data storage, a heavy-duty, big-data optimized infrastructure is usually required. Christina developed a technologically ambitious solution, which allows any semantic inference in the Sen2Cube.at implementation for > 30 000 Sentinel-2 images anywhere in Austria for the last 10 years, visualizing the results directly in ArcGIS Pro.
Thank you, Christina, for your wonderful work and creativity, and congratulations to all Students of the Year!