Receiving the 2015 Esri Canada GIS Scholarship has been a rewarding experience for me. It has provided me with a multitude of ways to improve my competence with ArcGIS as well as the ability to create Python programs. ArcGIS is a tool that I use at school with each one of my projects and the resources which accompany this scholarship have been a great benefit to succeeding with these projects in the final year of my undergraduate degree in Physical Geography. Because of this scholarship I was able to build an application which I am happy to continue developing as a Research Assistant in the coming years as I pursue my Masters of Sustainability at Brock. I sincerely thank Esri Canada for the opportunity to receive this scholarship, it truly meant a lot.