Thursday, July 30. 2009

Education Tidbits

Clark State Community College in Ohio announced a new geospatial technology associate degree program to begin this fall in Beavercreek. It was created through a partnership with Advanced Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC), CACI and Woolpert and is partially funded through the Ohio Board of Regent’s Future Jobs’ grant.

- Springfield News Sun

The Virginia Space Grant Consortium received an $894,228 grant from the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education program for the Geospatial Technician Education through Virginia's Community Colleges project. Three community colleges will establish "academic pathways in geospatial technology" and serve as model programs for other schools. Project partners include the Virginia Community College System; Virginia Geospatial Extension Program at Virginia Tech; and John Tyler, Tidewater and Virginia Western community colleges.

- Daily Press

As the latest cube-shaped disaster imaging satellite from Surrey Satellite Technology Limited launches today, there's a project aboard from UK students. Called Poise and developed by pupils at Shrewsbury School, in Shropshire, the experiment will measure variations in the ionosphere - the outermost layer of the atmosphere which can impact GPS signals.

- BBC

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