Abstract
Creating a Satisfying Partnership: 4-H Youth and GIS Professional Community! Track: Education Author(s): Lisa Conroy 4-H youth have valuable skills that GIS professionals may tap into for collaborative efforts on community projects in the areas of environment (Street Tree Inventory and Urban Forestry is the featured project of this presentation), emergency management, historical, and health. Learn how to work effectively with your community youth to create an intergenerational community GIS team who can make a difference! Learn the short- and long-term goals of 4-H (www.4-H.org). 4-H has been working to build technology skills among 4-H youth and their communities. Geospatial technology, especially GIS and GPS, is a growing part of those efforts and has allowed youth to integrate spatial technology in their on the ground community projects. Led by the USDA-CSREES and land grant universities, 4-H focuses on teaching youth leadership, citizenship, and life skills. Youth engage in real community projects to acquire higher-order thinking and problem-solving skills, teamwork capacities, and personal accountability. Lisa Conroy 4-H 18640 NW walker Rd. ##1400 Beaverton , OR 97006 US Phone: 503-725-2113 E-mail: lisa.conroy@oregonstate.edu |
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