You are a GIS Manager for a non-profit environmental organization where you lead a small team of GIS Analysts. A pre-proposal your organization submitted for a funding opportunity made it past the first round of review. You received an invitation to present your proposal to a panel of reviewers, who will choose between your organization and a pool of competitors for the project award.
Your job is to design a GIS work plan, summarize it in a visual presentation, and convince the panel of judges that your team is the best choice. Your role as a leader is to think through the potential opportunities and obstacles, provide a vision for your team to implement and bring in the project.
At the successful completion of the Final Project, you will:
If you have questions now or at any point during this lesson, please feel free to post them to the Final Project Discussion.
This lesson is two weeks in length and is worth a total of 200 points. Please refer to the Course Calendar for specific time frames and due dates. To finish this lesson, you must complete the activities listed below. You may find it useful to print this page out first so that you can follow along with the directions. Simply click the arrow to navigate through the lesson and complete the activities in the order that they are displayed.
If you have questions now or at any point during this lesson, please feel free to post them to the Final Project Discussion.
SDG image retrieved from the United Nations [1]