Find Your Direction with GIS
Do you like to solve puzzles? Love technology? Want to make a difference? That’s what GIS—Geographic Information Systems—is all about. It’s how scientists track hurricanes, how cities plan new parks, and even how apps like Uber find the fastest route to your door.
At GGI, you don’t just sit in class—you fly drones, map your own neighborhood, and use data to uncover hidden stories. .
GIS skills lead to jobs, right after high school or college. Entry-level jobs often start above $50,000, and specialists earn much more.
Turn your curiosity into real-world skills—and a career that counts.
From Wonder to Work
Since childhood, Sean Green has been captivated by the quiet dramas of nature—how plants rise and compete, how animals endure. At East St. John High, that fascination took shape when he discovered GIS through the Global Geospatial Institute. With a phone app in hand, he began tracing the paths of invaders: the Chinese tallow tree, overrunning its neighbors, and the apple snail, stripping wetlands bare.
Each point on the map told a larger story—of landscapes in flux, of fragile balances undone. The work sharpened his eye and led him forward, first to an internship with Riverland Surveying, then to a summer job, and now to his studies in environmental science at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
For Sean, the maps were more than data. They were doorways—opened by teachers who made the work both accessible and alive.