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Pre-Conference Activities

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Day's Schedule of Web Events

Time (EST)
Session Descriptions
Presenters

9:00 - 9:10 a.m.

Welcome & Overview

HOST AM
Rita Hagevik, NC Partnership for Improving Math and Science

9:10 - 10:00 a.m.

1st Strand     
 

Disease Detectives
A Problem-Based Learning Activity

Allyson Jason, GIS Coordinator
Dr. Barbara Porter-Spalding, DVM, Regional Epidemiologist, USDA Veterinary Services
David Wray, Director IT/GIS Section, NCDA & CS Emergency Programs Division

10:00 - 10:15 a.m

GIS LIVE Team Challenge
MOSS directions
Live GIS Demo at the Capitol with GIS Teachers & Students

Saturday Program for Academic and Cultural Education (SPACE) Teachers and Students

10:15 -10:30 a.m.

2nd Strand     
    GIS Careers Bennett Hawley and Stacey Nelson, NCSU College of Natural Resources
10:30 - 11:00 a.m. 3rd Strand     
  School Transportation and GIS Derek Graham, NC Department of Public Instruction Transportation and Mickey Michael, Institute for Transportation Research and Education
11:00 - 11:15 a.m. GIS LIVE Team Challenge Update
MOSS directions
Saturday Program for Academic and Cultural Education (SPACE) Teachers and Students
11:15 - 11:45 a.m. 4th Strand     
   NCOneMap Jeff Essic, NCSU GIS Librarian, Zsolt Nagy, Coordination Program Manager, NCCGIA, and Betty Welsh and Students, Centennial Campus Middle School
11:45 - Noon GIS Event   
   The Tumbleweed Project: Carnage Middle, NCSU, and NASA Search for Life on Mars Holly Hanrahan and Students, Carnage Middle School
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Noon - 12:30 p.m 5th Strand   
  
Navigating to Mars: The Mars Exploration Rover Mission (MER)
Mike Watkins, Manager of Navigation and Mission Design for the Mars Exploration Rover Mission, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
12:30 - 1:15 p.m. 6th Strand   
   Mapping and Predicting the Weather Greg Fishel, WRAL-TV Chief Meteorologist
Ryan Boyles, State Climate
Office of North Carolina

Student Interns from Centennial Campus Middle School
1:15 -1:45 p.m. 7th Strand  
 

Urban Ecosystem Analyses

Gary Moll, Vice President and Mike Lehman, CITYgreen, American Forests
Nain Singh and students, Carrington Middle School
1:45 - 2:00 p.m.    
  

GIS LIVE Team Challenge Update
MOSS directions

Saturday Program for Academic and Cultural Education (SPACE) students interview American Forests

2:00 - 2:15 p.m. 8th Strand   
   GIS Careers: Crime Analysis Mike Mull, Town of Cary GIS and Meredith Mull

2:15 - 2:45 p.m.

9th Strand

  

   Crime Analysis Damien Williams and Cindy DeVille, Crime Analysts,
City of Raleigh Police Department
2:45 - 3:25 p.m. 10th Strand

  

  Redistricting and Campaign Planning Dan Frey, GIS Projects Coordinator for NC General Assembly and Mike Mull, Town of Cary GIS
3:25 - 3:40 p.m. 11th Strand

  

  Environmental Justice and GIS Dianne Enright, North Carolina Center for Health Statistics
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

GIS Educators Electronic Forum

GIS Partnerships in
Teaching and Learning

   Welcome from Dean Nielsen & SPACE Kids GIS LIVE Team Challenge
  What is GIS and how is it useful in teaching and learning? Rita Hagevik, NC Partnership for Improving Math and Science
  GIS Partnerships in NC Cathy Cole, President, NC Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (NCURISA)
  GIS Team Challenge Results Bennett Hawley and SPACE Kids
  Grants for GIS Projects Carolyn Moser, Leesville MS
Pat Schweigert, Leesville MS
  GIS Curricula & Resources Marsha Alibrandi, NCSU College of Education
  Our Brazil Partnership Christiane Gioppo, Federal University of Parana, College of Education
  GIS Partnerships Larry Nielsen, Dean of NCSU College of Natural Resources
Hugh Devine, NCSU Center for Earth Observation
Harriett Stubbs, Sci-Link, NCSU College of Education
  The Future of GIS in Schools Colleen Karl, Science House
Rita Hagevik, NC Partnership for Improving Math and Science
   Closing

Cris Crissman, NCDPI Distance Learning

Post - Conference Activities

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