Student Paper Competition

All students are invited and encouraged to enter the Agro-Geoinformatics 2021 Best Student Paper Competition. Finalists will be selected by a committee to present their papers during a special session at the conference. The awards include cash award up to $500 for First-Place, Second-Places, and Third-Places. Besides the monetary awards, awardees will also receive the award certificates. Award-winning papers will be recommended to the conference special issue (Remote Sensing ISSN 2072-4292) with reduced publishing charge if accepted (50% OFF for First-Place, 30% OFF for Second-Place, and 20% OFF for Third-Place).

To participate in the best student paper competition, a student should submit a full, final, camera-ready paper formatted according to the IEEE conference paper template to the conference full paper submission site and send the participation form with the following materials to info@agro-geoinformatics.org by May 31, 2021 (extended to June 30, 2021):

1. A signed letter from a faculty advisor stating that the student will (1) present the paper if accepted, (2) publish the full paper in the Agro-Geoinformatics 2021 Proceedings, and (3) register and participate in the conference.
2. Proof of your student status.

Competition guidelines

  • The first/principal author must be a student
  • Each student can only submit one paper for consideration in the competition.
  • The student must be in a degree program on July 26, 2021.
  • The student must attend Agro-Geoinformatics 2021 and present the paper.
  • The student will publish the paper in the Agro-Geoinformatics 2021 Proceedings.
  • The full paper must be formatted according to IEEE template.

For additional questions on student paper competition, please contact Dr. Ruixin Yang (ryang@gmu.edu) of the competition committee chair for Student Best Paper Award.