SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION
The MAGIC Scholarship Competition offers an opportunity for students to demonstrate their GIS proficiency to an audience of GIS professionals in order to earn financial assistance towards their education, thanks to our generous members and sponsors.
Eligibility and Requirements
The applicant must be an undergraduate or graduate student currently enrolled and in good standing at a college or university in the area served by MAGIC.
The applicant must be enrolled Full-Time or at a minimum must have completed at least 12 credit hours in consecutive semesters.
The applicant may be from any academic discipline; however, the project undertaken must involve GIS.
The applicant must submit a completed application. Please include a photo (jpeg) of yourself so we can feature you and your project on our website.
The applicant must be available to give a 20-minute presentation (in-person or virtual) on his/her work.
MAGIC will be given permission to use the resulting project materials, copies of the materials, or reference the materials, to promote the scholarship program and to advance the mission of MAGIC. Actual ownership of resulting materials will remain with the applicant.
MAGIC Board members, Scholarship subcommittee members, and their immediate family members are ineligible to apply.
Preference will be given to projects based in the Mid-south area.
Deadlines and Evaluation
The deadline for submitting completed written applications is ______. The MAGIC Scholarship subcommittee will evaluate and score all written applications based on the information provided by the applicant and select the scholarship finalists, who will be notified by ______. Finalists must give a 20-minute presentation outlining their project/work at the MAGIC Scholarship Competition on ______. An additional 5 minutes will be allowed for questions. Presentations will be evaluated and scored by the Scholarship subcommittee. The MAGIC Board of Directors will award scholarships, based on the recommendations of the Scholarship subcommittee. The Board reserves the right to withhold scholarships if requirements or eligibility are not met. Announcement of the scholarship awards will be made immediately following the student presentations on ______. Disbursement schedule is at the Board's discretion.
Purpose
Education is a central component of the Memphis Area Geographic Information Council’s (MAGIC) mission. The purpose of the MAGIC Academic Scholarship program is to encourage and support students’ education through the completion of commendable GIS projects. MAGIC hopes to award one $2000 scholarship annually, available to any qualifying undergraduate student enrolled in a college or university in areas served by MAGIC.
Our generous members and sponsors have made it possible to offer academic scholarships since 2013. We are proud to support the new generation of GIS professionals through our Student Scholarship Program.