MMGEIS India

Master Mentors Geo-enabling Indian Scholars (MMGEIS), an online program aims to inculcate geospatial thinking and develop a research-oriented mindset amongst students who will form the future workforce of the country. The program will be open to students from 8th grade to undergraduate and will be delivered in a completely virtual mode over 4 months to provide them with much-needed exposure about what goes behind the common apps that we use to navigate our way to someplace or hail a cab or order food or other stuff from our mobile devices, or how GIS and remote sensing is playing a role in smart cities, utilities, transportation, disaster management, sustainable development, etc. It is about kindling geospatial thinking which will become the foundation for them to use the geospatial approach in whichever career they adopt.