GeoTech Center Summer Workshops

[Tora Johnson]

Dear Colleagues,

This is an amazing opportunity for educators (high school and undergrad) interested in GIS and/or using drones for data capture! The GeoTech Center is offering these summer workshops are free, and participants receive a stipend when they submit a completed lesson plan.

For more information or to apply, visit http://www.geotechcenter.org/regional-workshops.html

GeoTech Center Regional Workshops

​The National Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence (NGTC) will host four regional workshops in the summer of 2018. The workshops will be held in Dallas, San Diego, Salt Lake City, and Gettysburg and are open high school educators and 2-year/4-year college faculty. Each of the workshops has a different focus and require different levels of geospatial experience from beginner to intermediate. Each workshop will have 15-18 participants and will have participants developing curricular materials.

Workshop participants will receive:

• A $700 stipend upon completion of the workshop and submission of curricular materials by the end of the workshop. The materials may still require polish for use in your class(es), but the materials should be well on the way to being usable. Participants will receive assistance in a collaborative setting in the creation of their geospatial curriculum from professional geospatial instructors/curriculum developers and other workshop participants.
• Presentations and hands-on workshops of cutting-edge geospatial technologies.
• Membership to the GeoTech Center Community of Practice (CoP).
• Free registration to the Esri Ed User Conference (July 7-10, 2018) in San Diego, CA (a $175 value).

Application deadline is May 4, 2018 for the Dallas and San Diego workshops and June 8, 2018 for the Salt Lake City and Gettysburg workshops .

Dallas: June 26-28, 2018
GeoInquiries
Educators will leverage cross-curricular geospatial tools to increase student engagement and appropriately scaled inquiry-based lessons and demonstrations.
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San Diego: July 16-18, 2018
Using drones for data capture and deriving 3D models
This workshop will have participants using drones for data capture and for the derivation of 3D models, designing and publishing local projects using ArcGIS Online, creating and developing StoryMaps, performing spatial analysis using ArcGIS Online, and exploring data capture apps such as Survey123.
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Salt Lake City: July 31- August 2, 2018
Getting Started with UAVs and FAA Part 107 Certification
This workshop will focus on how to get started with UAVs, will prepare participants to take the FAA Part 107 Certification, introduce the legal aspects of UAVs, and have participants design an exercise or lesson that can be used in one of their courses.
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Gettysburg: August 7-9, 2018
GIS for Historical Analysis
Participants in this workshop will learn how to work with ArcGIS Online, StoryMaps, mobile data collection apps such as Collector for ArcGIS and Survey123, and other historical geospatial resources. As part of this workshop, participants will develop a lesson or exercise that can be used in one of their courses. This workshop is strongly encouraged for high school social studies teachers and for college and university social science faculty.

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Tora Johnson, PhD
Director/ Associate Professor
GIS Service Center & Laboratory, Torrey 223
University of Maine at Machias
tjoh...@maine.edu / to...@svbetsy.com
(207) 255-1214

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