PE and RS PUBLIC May 2012 : page-441The ASPRS Student Advisory Council (SAC) … …ensuring Student Member representation in ASPRS and more. SAC is a group of students committ ed to serving all of the student members of ASPRS. Our goal is to ensure that ASPRS is a Society that both benefi ts from student involvement and creates opportuniti es for those students. SAC is led by a Council of seven students who meet monthly to discuss issues pertaining to ASPRS Student Members. What do they do? • Organize special sessions of interest to students at ASPRS Annual and fall conferences. htt p://www.asprs.org/Annual-Conferences/ Program/ Create networking opportuniti es during those conferences and bring together students looking for employment aft er graduati on with potenti al employers in the industry. Inaugurate new programs within ASPRS such as the fi rst ASPRS Summer School to be held June 10-16, 2012 at George Mason University. Design acti viti es such as the GeoLeague Competi ti on where students compete in teams using geospati al technology applicati ons to solve a problem. htt p://www.asprs.org/Students/GeoLeague-Challenge-2011.html Promote student involvement in humanitarian projects such as crowdsourcing the manual interpretati on of imagery in Somalia to identi fy shelters that are being used as homes by refugees. htt p://irevoluti on.net/ tag/tomnod/. All ASPRS Student Members are encouraged to become involved with SAC. Check out the SAC Social Networking sites and keep up with ongoing news. • • • Student Newslett er: htt p://asprssignature.blogspot.com/ Facebook page: htt ps://www.facebook.com/pages/ASPRS-Student-Advisory-Council/117943608233122 Google Group: htt p://groups.google.com/group/asprs-sac LinkedIn Group: htt p://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2487675&trk=anet_ug_hm Email: asprs.chairsac@gmail.com STUDENT ADVISORY COUNCIL Publication List Using a screen reader? Click Here |
