USGIF Scholarship Program Deadline Reminder

May 19, 2009

Herndon, Va. — The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) would like to remind students and the GEOINT Community that the application deadline for the USGIF 2009 Scholarship Program is on Friday, May 29. All applications must be received or postmarked by this date. High school seniors, undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students within the geospatial sciences field or one related to it are encouraged to submit applications by the May 29 deadline. Nomination forms for all three awards categories are available online at http://www.usgif.org/Education_Scholarships.aspx. Scholarship winners will be announced and recognized during the GEOINT 2009 Symposium from Oct. 18-21 in San Antonio, Texas.

Last year the Foundation awarded $56,000 to 13 recipients, bringing the total amount of scholarships provided in the past four years to more than a quarter of a million dollars. In 2008, four Ph.D. candidates, three master’s students, three undergraduates and three graduating high school seniors received scholarships from the program. High school winners received $2,000 scholarships and the others received $5,000 scholarships.

In an effort to help further the advancement of the geospatial tradecraft, USGIF is dedicated to assist promising students interested in the geospatial sciences with its scholarship awards. USGIF hopes to inspire students who are interested in all that GEOINT has to offer to invest their futures in this incredibly exciting and relevant field of study.

USGIF is a not-for-profit educational foundation dedicated to promoting the geospatial intelligence tradecraft and developing a stronger community of interest between government, industry, academia, professional organizations and individuals sharing a mission focus around the development and application of geospatial intelligence to address national security objectives. For more information, please visit www.usgif.org.

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