Danielle Feoranzo, a student at Westwood Regional High School in the Township of Washington, recently earned her Girl Scout Gold Award by painting a map of the United States on the playground at the Jessie F. George Elementary School.
I've read lots of stories about maps being painted on playgrounds. What I like about this one is explained by the school pricipal:
"She facilitated a lesson for our fourth grade students that focused on the United States. Using the map, the students were able to move about the country while showcasing the content knowledge. It was a great experience for our students and a gift from Danielle that will last for many years to come."
- NorthJersey.com
A Clarkson University research team, led by Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering Professors Pier Marzocca, Suresh Dhaniyala and Lin Tian, is readying its unmanned aerial vehicle, the Clarkson RAVEN (Research Aerial Vehicle for Experimental Needs), to acquire wind turbulence data.
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The University of Redlands is pleased to announce the third cohort of faculty LENS (LEarNing Spatially) Fellows. Led by Dr. Diana Sinton, director of Spatial Curriculum and Research, LENS is a campus-wide initiative that promotes spatial literacy as a foundational component in curriculum, programs, and research. In the coming year, the LENS Fellows will work on curricular ideas around the theme of “Mapping Communities.”
The four university faculty members from different departments will participate in a summer institute on campus.
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Fort Lee plans to become the first school system in the nation to use the MapEverywhere software, which provides detailed campus floor plans to emergency responders via a smart phone application that does not rely on Internet or Wi-Fi connections, officials said.
Maps of each school and information about explosive chemicals and potentially dangerous electrical wirings will be available on an application that police and other authorized personnel can upload during a hostage, fire or other crisis.
I don't like the idea that it must be downloaded WHEN an incident is found. Cost: $495/month.
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At Holt Elementary in Durham, NC, the local GIS users are teaching about GIS via Google Earth. I'm not sure how I feel about this exercise:
To illustrate the difference that GIS technology makes, [GIS analyst from the GIS division of the city’s Technology Solutions Department, Robert] Cushman asked the students to locate their homes or school on paper maps within 30 seconds. They hunched over the maps, furiously searching for familiar street names or landmarks. At the end of the 30 seconds, just one student said he’d located his home.
“Now we don’t use maps like this anymore – very rarely,” Cushman said. “The maps we work with are made to be easy to use” – like traffic maps on morning TV newscasts and those used by vehicle navigation systems.
- Herald Sun
Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas are developing an emergency communications network that will maintain operation during natural disasters and provide critical warnings and geographic information to people affected by the disasters. The researchers are honing and testing the system now and expect to deploy a pilot network at the end of 2012.
Geo challenges include how to arrange the "mesh" network that enables the network and running GIS on low power devices. The work is funded by an NSF grant.
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Researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) and the University of Massachusetts, Boston (UMB) have created a detailed map (and accompanying study) of where terrorism attacks have occurred since 1970.
...while certain areas (those surrounding Manhattan and Los Angeles, for example) have endured as terror 'hot spots' throughout the study, others have come and go. In the 2000s, for example, there has been a higher-than-average rate of attacks in Maricopa County, AZ, Phoenix's county. King County, WA, on the other hand, was a terror hot spot in the 1970s and 1980s, but has been largely quiet since.
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WalkScore Raises $2M To Rate The "Walkability" Of Potential Housing
- TechCrunch
As part of the organization's 100th birthday celebration, scouts created a free "Girl Scout Cookie Locator" app for the iPhone and Android.
But some folks are nervous - not understanding that the app only lists Cookie booths, not scout home addresses. Booths always have adults present.
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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...
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