{"id":1654,"date":"2014-07-18T09:29:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T13:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2015-12-29T10:31:21","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T15:31:21","slug":"gifted-and-talented-students-to-research-local-conservation-issues-during-maryland-summer-center-for-geospatial-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/gifted-and-talented-students-to-research-local-conservation-issues-during-maryland-summer-center-for-geospatial-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Gifted and Talented Students To Research Local Conservation Issues During Maryland Summer Center For Geospatial Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Funding Provided By The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>For Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: William Reinhard, 410-767-0486<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>The <strong>Maryland Summer Center for Geospatial Technologies<\/strong> is designed to offer gifted and talented students the opportunity use geospatial technologies to conduct research on a variety of local conservation issues while working in collaborative research teams to develop a research question. The teams will collect and analyze Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and remote sensing data to create and implement an action plan.<\/p>\n<p>The<strong><em> 2014 Maryland Summer Centers Program<\/em><\/strong> continues a 46 year commitment at the State level to provide summer educational opportunities for Maryland\u2019s gifted and talented students. The program, coordinated through the Maryland State Department of Education, in partnership with public and nonpublic agencies, provides Maryland\u2019s diverse gifted and talented student population with advanced, rigorous, experiential learning opportunities that nurture these students\u2019 talents and abilities within unique learning environments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHO<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Gifted and Talented students, entering grades 4 \u2013 8, interested in using geospatial technologies to not only receive signals from outer space, but also see the world from space.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>July 15\u201325, 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Maryland Agriculture Resource Council Office (Baltimore County)<br \/>\n1114 Shawan Road<br \/>\nCockeysville, MD\u00a0 21030<br \/>\n(410-229-0530)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funding Provided By The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation<br \/>\nFor Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: William Reinhard, 410-767-0486<br \/>\nWHAT:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Maryland Summer Center for Geospatial Technologies is designed to offer <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/gifted-and-talented-students-to-research-local-conservation-issues-during-maryland-summer-center-for-geospatial-technologies\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[105,87,19],"class_list":["post-1654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-newsreleases","tag-gifted-and-talented","tag-gifted-and-talented-program","tag-gifted-and-talented-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1655,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions\/1655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}