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Communities for Rural Education, Stewardship & Technology (CREST) Renewal

Description

CREST networked 17 island and coastal schools throughout Maine into a learning community focusing on finding ways that students can use technology to find solutions to community questions. CREST directly impacts 55 students and 44 teachers, and indirectly impacts 1,700 additional students. CREST focuses on delivering database development, GIS mapping, web design and ethnographic research skills to students and teachers in Maine's most remote locations. This interdisciplinary, standards-based approach is reconnecting students to their communities and providing insight into applicable IT and STEM careers through local service-learning projects based in the surrounding Gulf of Maine ecosystem. The two-year renewal of CREST, with technology as a tool and place-based education as a vehicle, will expand to 17 schools with168 participants and a new regional collegiate partner, continuing to demonstrate more ways in which IT and STEM studies and careers can diversify and support natural resource-based communities and economies.

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PROJECT DETAILS

Award Number
0737588
Project Duration
2008 - 2011
Category
Comprehensive
Organization(s)
Island Institute, Rockland, ME
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Project Work State
ME
Target Gradespan(s)
Middle school (6-8)
High school (9-12)
Project Setting(s)
Formal Education
Geographic Location(s)
Rural
Project Status
Expired
Additional Disciplines
Environmental Science - GIS/GPS
Additional Target Participants
Educators
Students