Abstract
 VDOE and TSA Partner to Develop a Geospatial Technology Contest Track: Teaching with GIS Author(s): Thomas Spencer, George Willcox VDOE's Technology Education Service has developed a statewide pilot program in Geospatial Technology. The problem--defining geospatial technologies for a widely distributed and diverse audience. Recognizing the need to get students meaningfully involved with the technology, a core group of Virginia technology educators developed a competitive event for Technosphere, Virginia's Technology Student Association statewide conference. Students need to understand the technologies and their application to real-world problems. We also want to motivate students to pursue an education that will prepare them for knowledge-based jobs in our increasingly information-driven economy. Therefore, we developed a competitive event that requires students to solve community problems with real data including aerial photography, shape files and GPS waypoints which will be collected live on-site. Students are required to build a portfolio of data prior to the contest for presentation, then to arrive with the hardware and software to solve a related live problem on-site. Thomas Spencer Chesapeake Public Schools Engineering 800 Winthrope Drive Virginia Beach , VA 23452 US Phone: (757)547-0134 Fax: (757)547-2391 E-mail: tc_spencer@yahoo.com George Willcox Virginia Department of Education Office of Career and Technical Education Services 101 N. 14th Street James Monroe Building Richmond , VA 23219 US Phone: (804)225-3839 Fax: (804)371-2456 E-mail: gwillcox@pen.k12.va.us |
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