According to a recent BusinessWeek article, an increasing number of students are participating in virtual internships where they connect with their employer through the internet. Frequently, these opportunities are offered by small startups; however, experts say even larger companies are beginning to search for virtual interns, or e-interns. The U.S. State Department, for example, launched the Virtual Student Foreign Service, which helps students find online internships at State Department domestic offices and diplomatic posts abroad.
Goegraphy matters less for internship. I wonder if GIS shops more likely to go virtual?
- US News Univ Directory
Mystic Seaport announced Jeffrey J. Dunn will join the Museum as the new supervisor of the Treworgy Planetarium. He's now a GIS Analyst at UCONN working on his PhD. And, he's a contributor to Very Spatial.
- Stamford Plus
A Czech academic is leading efforts to draw up a new map of city centers, not according to their official names but rather based on the commonly understood slang names to have often survived for centuries in spite of the “proper” titles.
Jaroslav David, who teaches Czech studies at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Ostrava in the east of the country, has led a team which has completed the first part of a four year project funded by the Czech Ministry of Culture.
- Czech Position (great name!)
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/31 at 03:00 AM |
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Palm Beach County Florida is all set for the new school year with a GIS for parents of school age children.
One of the tools available at the district’s back to school page, allows parents to “find my school. The district partnered with the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser’s Office to create the school finder tool, said Donna Goldstein, the district’s GIS coordinator. Parents can type in their address and it shows what schools at the elementary, middle and high school level they are zoned to attend.
The tool will also show the attendance boundaries and the “two mile walk zone” for each school. Only students living outside the two mile walk zone are eligible for school bus transportation and those living within two miles of the school must either walk or be driven to school by a parent.
- Palm Beach Post Blog
Scofield leaders went to Washington, D.C. last week to present the school’s STEM work in water quality at a congressional hearing. ...The grant money—$330,000 through an Innovations in Education grant and a $160,000 Catalyst Initiative grant [from HP]—has allowed the school to purchase laptops, scientific calculators and cutting-edge geographic information systems (GIS) to collect data about the water surrounding the school and integrate their findings across the curriculum.
Scofield is Stamford, CT's magenet school.
- Stamford Patch
Proof of this [that Girl Scouts do more that have camp fires and sell cookies] was evidenced at a recent Huntley [Illinois] Village Board meeting when Girl Scout Troop 828 presented the village with a map of the Huntley Cemetery, detailing the final resting places of every veteran interred there. The map also detailed in which war each veteran served and their dates of service. Veterans are buried in 146 of the 225 grave sites at the cemetery.
Good stuff. I wonder if technology was used? The article does not say. If it were Boy Scouts do you think it'd say? Another article (Patch) confirms there is a spreadsheet of the data. Do Girl Scouts do mapping, surveying and GIS? It seems the Boy Scouts get more press on their work and Eagle Scout projects. This was, by the way, a Bronze Award project for the girls involved. And, no, I don't know what that is...
- Currier News
by Adena Schutzberg on 08/08 at 03:56 AM |
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