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Dear All, Thanks to all who send me some good ideas/suggestions to my request to expand "GeoStudents for GeoFuture" ideas http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/08/inviting-ideas-to-expand-geostudents-for-geofuture/ By coincidence last week , i met one of the first students who did internship with me when i established Open Source Geospatial Lab at University of Nottingham . Heshan Du was that time (2010) doing her undergraduate degree here and i applied for a Nuffield Foundation's funding for the internship . We got the funding from Nuffield and she went on to make us proud by winning Dean of Engineering Awards and later was offered a fully funded PhD at Nottingham . Details at http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/heshan-du Heshan is now doing postdoctoral research at Leeds University and will in few months be taking up an academic post at our China campus. I am so happy and proud her achievements. Thank you to Nuffield Foundation to providing these opportunities for many students. So i am requesting colleagues for information and ideas on other funding opportunities for undergraduate students that you are aware of, so we can start more programs for our labs globally . I request all of you to be a mentor and encourage your students to be part of NASA Europa Challenge. Your challenge, simply build a great application that serves some aspect of the OpenCitySmart design and uses NASA's open source virtual globe technology, WebWorldWind. By doing this you will advance a platform that allows every city to win! This challenge is open to all on our home planet. http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/projects2016 Climax in Trento with an expense-paid week for top 5 finalist teams (excluding travel).[1] Best wishes, Suchith Dr. Suchith Anand http://www.geoforall.org/ https://uk.linkedin.com/in/suchith-anand-6447b42 https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=2L29q_QAAAAJ&hl=en Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geoforall/2016-August/003093.html This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system, you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.