October 26, 2007- November 4, 2007

 

A collaborative group of five youth and two adults will travel to the Dominican Republic to present their GIS projects in the plenary session for ESRI’s Latin America and Caribbean User’s Conference.

 

The group includes three youth from Washington County, Oregon – Clara, Lizbeth, and Luis and two youth from North Carolina – Christian and Gabriel

 

Washington County youth will be presenting the 4-H Intel Tech Wizards’ Hillsboro Street Tree Project. Their presentation includes: A PowerPoint presentation where the youth present their project, and show the maps, a review of the equipment that is used, and a demo of their ArcGIS 9.2 project. In this demo, they talk about the quality of the data, how they manage it and collaborate with a professional GIS User.

 

The North Carolina youth will be presenting their project involving gang member populations in their community.

 

The faculty members will be discussing value added returns to professional GIS users, in collaborating with 4-H GIS groups.

You can follow our progress on our blog:
http://4HEquipoGIS.edublogs.org/

or look for pictures and videos at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/4hequipogis/

4-H Equipo GIS is looking for youth organizations and GIS professionals in other countries to partner with. Our vision is to create teams of youth who will travel abroad and present at ESRI and Geography conferences, participate in community service (GIS) projects, and then share their experiences. We would like to find teams of youth who are willing to collaborate, and participate in the ESRI International User’s Conference in San Diego, as well as a community service project in the San Diego area during that time.

4-H Youth and Adults working on  a community service project for Cabrillo National Monument.