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Connecting Students to Their Future
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Warren, Diana Papini Wilkins, Leslie T. Young, Isla |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | GeoTech for Hawaii Schools is a statewide initiative added to the Women in Technology (WIT) STEM Education portfolio of program offerings. Since its inception ten years ago, WIT has piloted and grown a number of programs for girls, women, native Hawaiians and underrepresented populations that specifically cultivate skills and interest in engineering. The field of geospatial technology has exponentially grown and significantly impacted multiple aspects of the engineering industry along with many other industries in our societies. Our statewide initiative to increase the use of geospatial technologies in education focuses primarily on offering training to public school teachers. Two objectives of our initiative are to serve the public school demographic and to continually make industry connections. Hawaii public schools are reflective of the diversity of Hawaii’s population. Less than thirty-five percent of Hawaii’s population is white or Caucasian, while the majority consists of Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islanders, Black, Hispanic or Latino, and mixed races. Our initiative reaches all of these students by way of our direct outreach to teachers from all public schools statewide. Along with serving our diverse demographic, we integrate in all our events gender equity training and engage girls and women. Raising awareness of career pathways and local industry connections is highlighted in all events, and we address this by bringing in local professionals from the geospatial technology industry to interact directly with participants. Professors and PhD candidates from University of Hawaii at Manoa, consultants from geotechnical engineering firms, and planning professionals from the county and private industry are a few examples of the guest presenters we have engaged. This paper will discuss the specific outcomes of the teacher professional development events of the GeoTech initiative. We facilitated a total of thirteen training events for educators over a fifteen month period, engaging two hundred twenty-five teachers from middle schools and high schools statewide. Potentially 32,625 students are being engaged in geospatial learning experiences as a result. All programs incorporated comprehensive assessment methods, including pre and post skill assessments. The compilation and review of this data will be a significant component of the paper. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://journals.psu.edu/wepan/article/download/58572/58260 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
