Molokai High School Students Go Geospatial!

On the Island of Molokai, the Hawaiian Immersion students from the high school participated in a GIS workshop facilitated by GeoTech for Hawaii Schools.

They were using ArcGIS 9.3 ArcEditor software, and by the afternoon, were downloading a variety of shapefiles and raster data sets to assist them in their Geographic Inquiry. Most of the data downloaded came from the fabulous UH Manoa SOEST Coastal Data Website. A must see!!
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/coasts/data/

We look forward to seeing how these students integrate GeoTech into their projects!!

GPS 101 for Kauai Educators

Through a partnership between the Kauai and Maui Economic Development Boards, the GeoTech for Hawaii Schools Initiative facilitated a GPS 101 workshop for Kauai teachers on Oct. 19th.

After a variety of outdoor GPS activities, participants transfered their tracks and points using the GPSies.com website (see image) to GoogleEarth, then watched a demo of a transfer into ESRI ArcGIS.

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GeoCaching

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Mapping Our Future Workshop

Mapping Our Future: Using GIS and GPS for Place-based Inquiry
This teacher workshop for neighbor island teachers began Oct. 6th - 9th and will continue in an online environment through December.

Congratulations to all the teachers on their hard work this past week! Mahalo to Joseph Kerski from ESRI, co-facilitator of the workshop, for all of his guidance and enthusiasm!