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    <div class="html-content"><div>We sat down with Alumnus, Gabriel Borini, to learn how UMBC’s graduate program in Geographic Information Systems helped shape his GIS leadership skills.</div><div><br></div><strong>Can you tell us what you loved most about the courses?</strong><br><br><div>The instructors encouraged participation between the peers. Because of all the classmates that are in the program, everyone’s already a professional. So it’s a great way to start networking and learning GIS leadership skills. And I still maintain these great networks today.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://gritinaction.umbc.edu/gis-leadership/?utm_campaign=GIS%20leadership%20student%20success&amp;utm_source=my.umbc.edu&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=blog" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Continue reading full article... </a><br></div></div>
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<Summary>We sat down with Alumnus, Gabriel Borini, to learn how UMBC’s graduate program in Geographic Information Systems helped shape his GIS leadership skills.    Can you tell us what you loved most...</Summary>
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