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Highway 154 Safety Project
The Highway 154 Safety Project is the work of
eight students who wanted to help find trends and patterns in reoccuring
accidents that happen along a stretch of the 154 Highway. The project
consisted of several meetings with local law enforcement agencies to obtain
the accident data sheets, trips to the accident sites in order to plot the
points with GIS/GPS units, and use of Excel, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and
PowerPoint to create the webpage frontend.
Highway 154 Safety Project Web site
Project highlighted in the September/October 2003
High School!
newsletter from the California Department
of Education
Chip's EAST students presented
their project at the state's
Student Technology Showcase as part of the
CUE Conference in Santa Clara on Saturday, October 25, 2003
Mission Santa Inés Aqueduct Mapping Dynamic
GIS
In September of 2003,
the Environmental and Spatial Technologies class (EAST) at Santa Ynez Valley
Union High School, under Dr Fred Van Leuven Superintendent, Norm Clevenger
Principal, Chip Fenenga and Kim Merz, teachers, was contacted by Mr. Mike
Loehr, who documented and helped represent Mission Santa Inés when it was
approved for National Historic Landmark District status in 1998. He asked
the class about the ability to map the water system using GPS and GIS
technologies. This had never been done before and was a challenge as
development is increasingly reaching out into the area.
This project has earned
many awards and a publication:
- 2004
EAST
Founder's Schools of Excellence
and Best Project in a 2nd-year School
-
First place in
Geospatial Solutions' Fifth Annual Applications Contest-- beating
out professionals in industry!
- Governor's Historic Preservation Award for 2004; This prestigious
award is the only official preservation award presented by the State of
California to worthy recipients in recognition of outstanding achievements
in historic preservation. Information will hopefully be posted soon on
the
Office of Historic
Preservation web site.
Read the summary
of the history and technology of the project.
See the student poster describing the work.
Read some great
press and information on the project.
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