Education Blog

An innovative partnership between K12 educators, a university, and industry (Esri) resulted in a year-long initiative to foster spatial thinking in teaching climate and sustainability topics through geotechnologies. 

A new book from Esri Press entitled Creating a Smarter Campus: GIS for Education features a collection of real-life stories about education organizations successfully using GIS technology to improve teaching, learning, research, and administration.  

Over 45 K-12 and informal educator interviews about teaching with GIS. Who inspires you?

In a challenging world, can young people learn enough GIS ever to dream of a GIS career? Hope alone is not enough, but Hopeworks helps.

This year 22 awesome university students from around the world were winners of the Esri Young Scholar Award. Many of them attended the International Users Conference in San Diego where they collected their award and met Jack Dangermond and many others of the more than 10000 attendees. Have a look at a StoryMap to see more about the Scholars and their projects.  

The Esri Innovation Program (EIP) is proud to announce the 2022 Student of Year nominations. Thanks to all students for their wonderful work, and to their mentors for the support and encouragement.

Check out these inspirational stories shared by fellow educators and students - examples of using GIS technology across various disciplines to supercharge curriculum, geo-enable campus and sharpen skills. 

What did you do for GIS Day 2021?  I had a very "spatial" time presenting to a wide variety of audiences from all over the world, and hope you had a wonderful day and week presenting and participating in events.  This article highlights some of the 1,500 inspiring events from around the world (see this web map to learn more about each event and to see the global distribution) and the visionary people in the GIS community who made those events happen.

Want to expand access to GIS, streamline management, and vaporize trouble-shooting logins? Go single sign-on.

A memorial to honor those lost to COVID-19 in which GIS played a big role is happening now in Washington DC.  Last week, 650,000 flags were planted on the National Mall in Washington to represent those lost to the COVID pandemic.  See the flags and messages here:

https://www.inamericaflags.org/