USA – Digital Quest, a Mississippi-based development and training company, is pleased to announce that they are expanding operations to keep up with the growing demand in the educational and training geospatial market.
Austin Smith, employed with Digital Quest for the past four years, is being promoted to Vice President for Support and Development. He will be opening the newest branch office of Digital Quest in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he will oversee the support and development of new materials.
“We have three major projects on our list including updating all of our current books, adding e-commerce to our web site and releasing a brand new certification testing instrument,” said Austin Smith. “I plan on being very busy.”
In addition, Digital Quest is announcing Scott Weller as the new head of the national sales and marketing team. Scott has worked in marketing for the geospatial industry for seven years and as an educational consultant for the past ten years. He has instituted geospatial curriculum at all levels from kindergarten through post secondary. Scott helped Digital Quest create the blue print for the educational “Geospatial Hub Sites” and he will now help the Digital Quest sales team implement that plan nationally.
“Digital Quest has a proven model that will help everyone be more successful,” said Scott Weller. “I am excited to get to work with the Digital Quest team and all the sales representatives from around the country to implement Digital Quest solutions.”
Digital Quest focuses on designing, developing, distributing, and supporting geospatial/remote sensing educational, classroom-based products including:
- STARS: A series of courses that prepare students to take the GIS certification test. STARS is the first and only competency based, industry recognized, entry-level, geospatial certification.
- SPACE: A series of courses, developed by the SPACESTARS partnership, designed to allow students to use GIS skills in the context of selected community based topics.
- AGIS Book Series: A Geospatial Industry Series that examines an entire industry/ career cluster to show how geospatial technology impacts and improves those industries. These courses feature detailed narratives about the relationship between the particular industry and geospatial technology. In addition, guided lessons and scenarios give students hands on experience with GIS Software.
“Having the caliber of personnel like Austin and Scott is key to Digital Quest’s future,” stated Eddie Hanebuth, Founder of Digital Quest, Inc. “These two have the skills, visions, and ability to drive Digital Quest to a whole new level.”
