Networking Opportunities

• GIS Day

• Symposium by the Sea

• Washington GIS Conference

• NW Utility GIS User Group Meetup

• Cartography Symposium

• North America Cartographic Information Society (NACIS)
• American Association of Geographers (AAG)

Participate in a professional organization

• Oregon and SW Washington URISA Chapter

• OneURISA

• Columbia River ASPRS

• Society for Conservation GIS

Speakers and Lectures

Technical and Soft Skill Development

• Develop a project based on mutual interests and skills
• Offer your skills & services to a local non-profit
• Learn a new skill via open resources
• Enroll in an Esri MOOC
• Teach or share a skill
• Improve your public speaking and presentation skills
• Start your GISP application
• Research and/or apply to geography/GIS higher education
• Get your drone license

• Prepare for the FAA’s Remote Pilot Certificate exam (14 CFR Part 107)Take the exam at a local testing center.

Learn About the Industry

• Job shadowing - Invite your mentee to work and vice versa

• Set-up informational interviews

• Volunteer to gain experience

• National Map Corp

• GIS Corp

• Host a mapathon for Missing Maps

Professional Development

• Streamline your search for the best GIS degrees & certificate programs in the USA with GISDegree.org.

Resume and cover letter review

• Develop, update, or refine your portfolio

• Build a website to showcase your work with Wix or ArcGIS StoryMaps

• Develop a five-year plan

Project Ideas

• Submit an entry to ESRI’s StoryMap competition

• Submit an entry to ESRI’s Map Book

• Submit a poster for GIS in Action

• Build a custom tool

• Offer your skills and services to a local non-profit