“Geo for All” is the Open Source Geospatial Foundation’s Committee for Educational outreach and works in close collaboration with ICA, ISPRS, UN-GIS, AGILE, UCGIS, IGU and other partners worldwide in our mission for making geospatial education and opportunities accessible to all. In 2021, GeoforAll had its first student competition to recognize the work done by students in their network.

Two of our 2021 geoinformatics Honours students entered their research projects and were recognized for their work. Zelbé Boshoff placed 3rd in the English presentation category with her project entitled, An automated workflow for collecting and visualizing daily rainfall in South Africa, which was supervised by Victoria Rautenbach and Prof Liesl Dyson. The results of her project are available here, https://zelbe04.github.io/research_project/

Nicholas de Kock was awarded the prize in the category for promising tools, for his project entitled, autoESDA: An Open-Source Python Library for Automated Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA). Nicholas is continuing with this project for his MSc Geoinformatics and hope to publish it soon as a QGIS plugin.

You can read the winners announcement here, https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/winners-announcement-pitch-your-research-geoforall-student-competition/

The GeoforAll will also be hosting a student conference on 23 February 2022 during which Nicholas and Zelbé will present. Information on the presentations are available here, https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geoforall/2022-February/006067.html