Oct. 30, 2019
ESRI Canada Centre of Excellence
Student of the Year Award given to Geomatics graduate student
Courtenay Canivet
Congratulations Rodrigo de Oliveira E Silva! He is a current graduate student in Dr. Xin Wang's research group and he has received the ESRI ECCE Student of the Year Award.
As part of an ESRI Canada Centre of Excellence (ECCE), students who excel in GIS and demonstrates the mission and vision of the ECCE can be nominated as the student of the year. As the winner of the year, Rodrigo received a certification from ESRI and $250. In 2018-2019, Rodrigo was one of the student associates of our department of the ECCE. He led a Geomatics graduate team to participate the ESRI App Challenge and was very active to promote the GIS and geomatics technology, such as Geoday organization and Geomathron.