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Monday, January 07, 2008

Montague Mass. Students Contribute to ESRI Atlas Project

ESRI’s “U.S. Community Atlas” is a project where teachers and students across the country define their communities and one school in western Massaschusetts but its area on the map.

Douglas C. Finn, a video production and filmmaking teacher at Turners Falls High lead
16 honors earth science and Microsoft Office students (interesting!) and their teachers in the work using ESRI software along with other technologies. Says Finn, “Students who learn how to use GIS systems to gather, organize and read data will have an advantage in the workforce, an advantage that is measurable and real.”

The project took just five weeks.

Trivia tidbit: The Town of Montague, MA was key in the development of what important ESRI product? ArcView.


- MassLive.com

by Adena Schutzberg on 01/07 at 07:05 AM | Comments | Bookmark and Share

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