Impressions from the Toronto User Conference: Spencer Elford
Posted 9 years ago
Spencer Elford is a student from the School of Geography and Earth Sciences at McMaster University. On October 14th, he along with several of his McMaster colleagues were able to attend the Esri Canada Toronto User Conference. Spencer explains how he benefited from his first GIS-related conference. This past October I was given the chance […]
Impressions from the Esri User Conference: Ashley Zhang
Posted 9 years ago
Earlier this year, the Esri Canada Centre of Excellence (ECCE) App Challenge was won by UW Team SDS for their transit and routing app PredictION. The team’s prize included a trip to San Diego for the Esri International User Conference. Ashley Zhang, who was a member of UW Team SDS, details some of the more […]
Impressions from the Esri User Conference: Maju Sadagopan
Posted 9 years ago
Earlier this year, the Esri Canada Centre of Excellence (ECCE) App Challenge was won by UW Team SDS for their transit and routing app PredictION. The team’s prize included a trip to San Diego for the Esri International User Conferences. Maju Sadagopan, one of the members of UW Team SDS, reflected on his experience during […]
Devpost Ranks Most Popular Technologies and APIs for Students
Posted 9 years ago
Choosing the right programming language to start learning can often be a difficult task. The developer landscape is constantly evolving, and a language that is popular today can seemingly become dated in just a few months. Ensuring that you are investing your time in the most relevant and in-demand programming languages can make a difference […]
A First Hand Account of Team-CODE’s Experiences in the 1st Annual ECCE App Challenge
Posted 10 years ago
This is a guest post from the GeoThink Canadian Geospatial and Open Data Research Partnership Web site by McGill University PhD student Jin Xing about his team’s experience during the ECCE App Challenge. I was one of three Geothink students who competed in the ECCE 1st Annual App Challenge hosted by the Esri Canada Centre […]
Impressions from the 2015 Esri Developer Summit: Derrick Ho
Posted 10 years ago
Derrick Ho is a PhD candidate from the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University who was selected by his school’s Centre of Excellence to attend the Esri Developer Summit in Palm Springs, CA. Derrick wrote this brief article about his what he took away from the Developer Summit. The Esri Developer Summit proved to […]
Impressions from the 2015 Esri Developer Summit: Christopher Ilori
Posted 10 years ago
Christopher Ilori is a PhD candidate from the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University who was selected by his school’s Centre of Excellence to attend the Esri Developer Summit in Palm Springs, CA. Christopher wrote this brief article about his experience at the Developer Summit. I have a master’s degree in Natural Resources – […]
Team Watermelon’s ECCE App Challenge Experience
Posted 10 years ago
This is a guest post from Dr. Peter Johnson’s Geospatial Participation blog by University of Waterloo graduate student Qing (Lucy) Liu about her team’s experience at the ECCE App Challenge. The ECCE App Challenge is a coding competition held by Esri Canada. Started on February 27, 2015, teams from universities across the country were given […]
Student awards: Esri Canada GIS scholarships and the Esri Young Scholars Award
Posted 10 years ago
This post was contributed by Krista Amolins, a Higher Education Developer and Analyst of the Education and Research department at Esri Canada. For the past decade, Esri Canada has been supporting students through the Esri Canada GIS Scholarships program. Close to 60 colleges and universities across Canada participate in this program each year. The selected students […]
Dr. Brent Hall Talks to GoGeomatics about Esri Canada Centres of Excellence
Posted 10 years ago
Recently, Dr. Brent Hall was interviewed by GoGeomatics. Check out what he had to say about the ECCE initiative and hear his opinions on a number of other GIS-related topics: http://www.gogeomatics.ca/magazine/dr-brent-hall-talks-to-gogeomatics-about-esri-canada-centres-of-excellence.htm
