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02/28/06
SPACESTARS, SkillsUSA, and the New Geospatial Competition
SkillsUSA has partnered with the GIS industry to develop a competition program that will provide universities, colleges and their students with a way to validate their geospatial program and measure them against national standards. The partners include ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute), SPACESTARS, Leica GeoSystems GIS & Mapping, GITA (Geospatial Information & Technology Association) and others.
For more information and complete details and sponsor list or to register for this exciting event, visit: www.skillsusa.org/collegecontests.html or click the link below. Please see the attached pdf containing the SkillsUSA GIS post card for use with email notification for all geospatial technology students with interest in competing for rewards and national recognition.
SkillsUSA Online Geospatial Contest
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06/29/05
DVD from STARS Geospatial Forum
Still not sure if GIS is right for your organization? Check out the DVD from our STARS Geospatial Forum. This DVD features speakers from NASA, Law Enforcement, Private Industry, ESRI, the Department of Labor, and our own staff. Click the link below to go to the order page.
STARS DVD Order Form
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03/10/05
Press Releases for SPACESTARS and Digital Quest
The following is a list of links to Press Releases about Digital Quest. Each
link opens in a new window and the press releases are in PDF format, so you
may need to download the newest version of Acrobat Reader to view them.
June
01, 2004 Geospatial
July
12, 2004 Lizard Tech
July 17,
2004 GeoPlace
August
01, 2004 BCIT
September
01, 2004 Geoplace
December 08,
2004 ESRI
February 03,
2005 Sun Herald
February 22,
2005 Stennis News
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07/27/04
STARS
Certification Gains More Recognition!
As reported by several respected publications such as the Mississippi Business
Journal, GISUser.com
and GeoPlace.com,
we are pleased to announce that the STARS GIS Technician Certification
has been recommended by the Institute
Management & Training Corporation in a paper comissioned for
the Department of Labor entitled, "Industry-Recognized Certificate
Programs and Job Corps: Working Toward a Skilled and Qualified
Workforce." You can read the full report here, or have a
look at the press release here.
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02/10/04
Digital
Quest and nVision team up for Emergency Response!
The Madison
County Herald reports that nVision
Solutions along with Digital
Quest are seeking to make Madison County, Mississippi a pilot site
for a new, real-time geographic information system to be implemented
for first responders through a grant from the US Department of Homeland
Security. The system will provide the ability for every first
response service from fire and police departments to private companies
contracting for public service such as ambulance units, to coordinate
their efforts geographically for any type of disaster management.
You can read a PDF of the article here.
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10/21/03
GIS
Employment on the Rise
The Department of Labor has listed
Geospatial
Information among the top three fastest growing emerging career fields
in the United States! Check it out at CareerVoyages.gov
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10/13/03
Featured
on NASA Educational TV
SPACESTARS has been chosen to provide
the
web-based GIS instructional activities for the latest episode of NASA Connect, an
educational television show that is
broadcast on over 130 PBS stations, and on Channel One! For this
episode called Virtual Earth, which begins airing on October
16, we have created two new portions of our website for students to use
at the end of the show. You can use these activities in your
classroom as part of the Earth Systems lesson provided on the NASA
Connect show, or they can be used by themselves. They're called Earthquake
Hunters and H20 Extremes.
Instructions and printable
material for these activities can be found on NASA Connect's website,
at this
location. Update: Ask us about a copy of the video for
use in your classroom!
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9/23/03
Schedule
for GIS Training Sessions
A schedule has been posted for our
upcoming
Geographic Information Systems training courses and workshops.
Contact your local SPACESTARS representative or Digital Quest for
information about attending the courses at NASA's John C. Stennis Space
Center, or at your own facility.
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03/24/03
ESRI
Business Partner of the Year!
At the 2003 ESRI Business Partner
Conference in Palm Springs, CA,
Digital Quest received a Business Partner of the Year award from
ESRI. Pictured are Eddie Hanebuth (left) of Digital Quest, Susan
Radke (right) of Berkeley Geo Research Group and Jack Dangermond,
(center) President of ESRI, congratulating them on the award.
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606 visitors since January 2004
SPACESTARS is a joint project of Digital Quest
and Berkeley Geo-Research Group.
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