{"id":1134,"date":"2022-05-26T21:11:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T21:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmcat.austincc.edu\/gis-blog\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2022-05-26T21:13:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T21:13:16","slug":"1000-drone-scholarship-opportunity-due-may-31st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmcat.austincc.edu\/gis-blog\/blog\/2022\/05\/26\/1000-drone-scholarship-opportunity-due-may-31st\/","title":{"rendered":"$1000 Drone Scholarship Opportunity Due May 31st"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Greetings, ACC GIS Community,<br \/><br \/>I am posting this blog announcement to tell you about a scholarship opportunity for folks interested in advancing drone tech: https:\/\/www.dronepilotgroundschool.com\/scholarship\/ <br \/><br \/>The application is due May 31, 2022 for $1000 and includes a rigorous drone prep course as well as reimbursement for the Part 107 FAA exam fee. College students and college-bound high school seniors are encouraged to apply.<br \/><br \/>In the application you are asked how you will use the money since my understanding is that the Part 107 prep course and exam fee reimbursement is included *in addition* to the $1000 you would receive. <br \/><br \/>May I suggest that you consider using the scholarship money to take the 80-hour hands-on drone class UVSO 1070 Drone Operations Introduction at ACC in Kyle offered year-around (Part 107 license required but no drone required &#8211; you can borrow one for the class) and\/or the GISC 1421 Intro to Raster-Based GIS offered in the Fall on campus at Highland. <br \/><br \/>Please reach out to me if you have any questions or need support in completing the application.<br \/><br \/>Sincerely,<br \/><br \/>Sally Holl<br \/><br \/>Associate Professor of GIS <br \/>Austin Community College <br \/>6101 Highland Campus Drive<br \/>Building 2000, Room 2.1531.05<br \/>Austin, Texas 78752<br \/>(512\u00ad) 223\u00ad-4049 office<br \/>sally.holl@austincc.edu <br \/>https:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/gis<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, ACC GIS Community, I am posting this blog announcement to tell you about a scholarship opportunity for folks interested in advancing drone tech: https:\/\/www.dronepilotgroundschool.com\/scholarship\/ The application is due May 31, 2022 for $1000 and includes a rigorous drone prep course as well as reimbursement for the Part 107 FAA exam fee. College students and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drone","category-scholarship"],"acf":{"\n\t\t\t\tfeatured_banner\t\t":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmcat.austincc.edu\/gis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmcat.austincc.edu\/gis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmcat.austincc.edu\/gis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmcat.austincc.edu\/gis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmcat.austincc.edu\/gis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dmcat.austincc.edu\/gis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmcat.austincc.edu\/gis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmcat.austincc.edu\/gis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmcat.austincc.edu\/gis-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}