team members include: daniel goldberg assistant professor aaron harmon programmer analyst i and edgar hernandez software applications developer i all in the department of geography in the texas a&m college of geosciences; christopher matus gis coordinator nathan brown it professional and arnold pearson geospatial specialist office of mapping & space information; eric irwin geospatial specialist transportation services; and andrew fleming and min-hung ‘hank chou both gist undergraduate students and earlier this year the esri development center at texas a&m awarded their student of the year award to fleming for his student leadership and work on the project andrew worked hard to complete this student research service learning project and created important new accessibility functionality within the aggie map that will benefit students staff and faculty throughout campus said goldberg a grant from the texas a&m office for diversity and support from the department of geography college of geosciences funded the accessibility mapping project in addition to the above aggie map partners this project included the tamu department of computer science and engineering and tamu libraries maps and gis services all project partners wanted to see texas a&m meet the needs of all aggies goldberg said this project highlights what can be accomplished when a diverse group of students faculty and staff spanning the full breadth of academic research and operational communities of campus all come together to solve a challenge facing the aggie community high-impact learning experiences for students these gist students were exposed to a real-world accessibility problem affecting real members of our community which needed a solution goldberg said this was a high-impact learning experience for them what they accomplished will have real impacts on the lives of real people and its the kind of formative experience we provide for students in the college of geosciences during the spring semester fleming attended the esri developer summit with texas a&m faculty and staff and received guidance on building and completing the ada mapping project directly from industry leaders looking to push the boundaries of accessible navigation goldberg said working on the ada mapping project has really helped me learn how to make and process gis data efficiently; our routing network is composed of over 100 000 features which would be impossible to create and maintain in a non-programmatic way fleming said because of this project i have furthered my skills with fme a software package by safe software it feels good and was fun to have helped build this network with my friend and colleague hank and the rest of the gis team fleming interned with conocophillips last summer will intern there again this summer and plans to graduate in december 2018 he said originally from virginia fleming plans to use his gis degree to continue solving real-world problems after graduation for more information visit: aggie map office of mapping & space information texas a&m disability services disability services partners with facilities services residence life and transportation services to facilitate access to buildings residence halls parking lots and other locations on campus students with disabilities who experience physical barriers should contact disability services for assistance by leslie lee 09