Isla Young
MEDB's Women in Technology, Kihei, HI
GIS in Education: K-12 and University
Wednesday March 7, 2012 - 10:45 am to noon
Hawaii became the first state in the nation to provide Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software throughout its entire educational system, thanks to an unprecedented partnership agreement between Esri, the Women In Technology (WIT) Program, and the State's Department of Education. The license allows every public, private and charter K-12 school throughout the state extraordinary access to Esri's state-of-the-art GIS tools.
An online distribution center allows WIT to seamlessly manage the statewide requests for the GIS software. To date, over 215 requests have been processed through the Hawaii GIS K-12 distribution site:
http://www.womenintech.com/GISDistributionCenter
In addition, the GeoTech for Hawaii Schools program was created to augment the statewide GIS distribution. The initiative, GeoTech for Hawaii Schools, encompasses three parts: professional development for teachers, events for students, and ongoing support for teachers and students. We have engaged over two hundred twenty-five teachers Statewide, and potentially 32, 625 students.
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Monday, January 2, 2012
Hawaii Geospatial Data Repository
Donna Delparte
University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, HI
Gwen Jacobs
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
GIS in Education: K-12 and University
Wednesday March 7, 2012 - 10:45 am to noon
The Hawai‘i Geospatial Data Repository (HGDR) allows access to scientific datasets for researchers and collaborators from around the state. The HGDR provides an integrative capability to collect, store and manage access to data in support of discovery, manipulation, and visualization. Geospatial information is being delivered through web mapping services and is used to build applications to visualize data from the research agenda. Disparate sensor and field datasets are managed and controlled by researchers who can upload, download, manage, query and perform QA/QC on their data. The Hawaii Geospatial Data Repository is working towards integrating a variety of formats and further developing custom portals for statewide datasets as well as facilitating connections to High Performance Computing for modeling, analysis and visualization.
University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, HI
Gwen Jacobs
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
GIS in Education: K-12 and University
Wednesday March 7, 2012 - 10:45 am to noon
The Hawai‘i Geospatial Data Repository (HGDR) allows access to scientific datasets for researchers and collaborators from around the state. The HGDR provides an integrative capability to collect, store and manage access to data in support of discovery, manipulation, and visualization. Geospatial information is being delivered through web mapping services and is used to build applications to visualize data from the research agenda. Disparate sensor and field datasets are managed and controlled by researchers who can upload, download, manage, query and perform QA/QC on their data. The Hawaii Geospatial Data Repository is working towards integrating a variety of formats and further developing custom portals for statewide datasets as well as facilitating connections to High Performance Computing for modeling, analysis and visualization.
Crickets, Gecko’s, and Coqui’s – Oh my!
Sam Droege
Derek Masaki
US Geological Survey
Isla Young
MEDB/WIT
GIS in Education: K-12 and University
Wednesday March 7, 2012 - 1:30 to 4:30 pm
Creating a dynamic, fun, and relevant learning environment is the key to engaging Hawaii students in the STEM fields of GIS, biology, ecology, and computer science. Join USGS, HIGICC and MEDB’s Women In Technology (WIT) project for a fun educational workshop focused on the Hawaii Coqui Crawl project working to identify locations, model the distribution and perhaps general abundance of coqui frogs, house geckos and native crickets in Hawaii.
Students and the general public participating in the event will learn about invasive species, unique Hawaiian native species, and gain a better understanding of the unique biogeography of the Hawaiian Islands (develop a sense of place). Teachers and students will be introduced to a species count, use of technology to track the creatures, sound analysis, and create an awareness of Hawaii’s amazing native and invasive species – located right here in our own backyards!
Hawaii’s amazing Natural Resources & Invasive Species Committee, the Bishop Museum, Geospatial experts, and the Educational community will be partnering to provide an excellent opportunity for real world issues to be studied in the school classroom, and outside in our Hawaii outdoors classroom.
Derek Masaki
US Geological Survey
Isla Young
MEDB/WIT
GIS in Education: K-12 and University
Wednesday March 7, 2012 - 1:30 to 4:30 pm
Creating a dynamic, fun, and relevant learning environment is the key to engaging Hawaii students in the STEM fields of GIS, biology, ecology, and computer science. Join USGS, HIGICC and MEDB’s Women In Technology (WIT) project for a fun educational workshop focused on the Hawaii Coqui Crawl project working to identify locations, model the distribution and perhaps general abundance of coqui frogs, house geckos and native crickets in Hawaii.
Students and the general public participating in the event will learn about invasive species, unique Hawaiian native species, and gain a better understanding of the unique biogeography of the Hawaiian Islands (develop a sense of place). Teachers and students will be introduced to a species count, use of technology to track the creatures, sound analysis, and create an awareness of Hawaii’s amazing native and invasive species – located right here in our own backyards!
Hawaii’s amazing Natural Resources & Invasive Species Committee, the Bishop Museum, Geospatial experts, and the Educational community will be partnering to provide an excellent opportunity for real world issues to be studied in the school classroom, and outside in our Hawaii outdoors classroom.
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