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Subject: AASHTO GIS-T Student Contest
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:35:31 -0400
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Good Morning,
I would like to introduce myself as a representative of the AASHTO GIS
for Transportation Symposium Planning Committee. I am the GIS Program
Manager at Federal Railroad Administration, USDOT. Every year we have a
contest designed to encourage university students to develop solutions
to current GIS & Transportation (GIS-T) issues. Attached (and pasted
below) is a flyer about the student paper contest and the prizes, there
is also more information at http://www.gis-t.org/ If you have any
questions or concerns please feel free to contact me.
Thank you,
Raquel Wright
*GIS-T Student Paper Contest*
The contest is designed to encourage university students to develop
solutions to current GIS-T issues. Students will be judged on their
ability to develop and document useful, original research based on GIS-T
issues and to relay their research results in a complete, clear, and
well-referenced paper. The winners will present their papers at the 2010
GIS-T symposium.
*_Eligibility Requirements:_*
* The applicant must be a currently enrolled student.
* Only one paper contest entry per student is acceptable.
* Willingness to attend and present at the GIS-T Conference in April
2010
* The final paper or poster must be available electronically to be
posted on the GIS-T website.
*_Submission Deadline: _**/_December 11, 2009_/*
*_Awards:_*__
We will be giving two graduate awards of $500 plus a round trip ticket
(US Continental) to Charleston, West Virginia with two nights stay and
one undergraduate award of $250 plus a round trip ticket (US
Continental) to Charleston, West Virginia with two nights stay. The
winners will also present their paper at the Student Paper session on
April 11^th , 2010 and their presentations posted to the GIS-T website.
*_Submission Guidelines:_*
Found here: http://www.gis-t.org/
*_Email Submissions or Questions to:
_* Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Papers will be judged by members of the GIS-T Planning Committee and
will be rated in the following categories:
• Significance of topic
• Literature review
• Data analyses (if applicable)
• Interpretation
• Clarity of presentation
• Validity of conclusions
• Reader interest
Students will be notified of the contest results via email no later than
March 1^st , 2010.
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