With four cohorts from Spring 2024- Fall 2025, 86 students completed the Center of Excellence in Spatial Computing (COESC) Program. Each cohort covered the topics of Fundamentals of Spatial Computing, Spatial Computing Design, Spatial Data Analysis, and Human-Computer Interactions: VR/AR. Students also were given a Python Programming Basics training and access to a GPU server housed in the cluster of the Data Science and Analytics Innovation Center. career services and resume look over.
The classes were taught by UMKC and MU faculty, along with UMKC and MU PhD students.
Four classes were conducted on the UMKC campus and one class conducted on the MU campus. On the MU campus the cohort visited the University of Missouri C.A.V.E.
The COESC program provided 40 paid internships across 12 companies across the Midwest