4-H and GIS
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Visit the 2012 ArcGIS online map.
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The 2013 Esri GIS Grants for 4-H application period ended Dec 1, 2012. Your youth group may be eligible for access to Esri ArcGIS licenses under a Statewide K-12 license. Please visit esriurl.com/k12schoollicenses for more information.
2013 ArcGIS Youth Club Grant Guidelines
The 2013 Esri ArcGIS Youth Club Grant Program is for 4-H clubs t who want to learn about GPS or GIS technologies and and introduce spatial literacy and geospatial technologies to youth. The ArcGIS Youth Club grant provides two options for access to Esri’s GIS technology: ArcGIS Desktop or an ArcGIS online subscription. The grant provides access to curriculum and GIS software. Please complete and submit the 2013 ArcGIS Grant application found at www.esri.com/4-H
State or Regional ArcGIS 4-H Educator Train the Trainer Grant Guidelines
The 2013 Esri ArcGIS Train the Trainer Grant Program is for 4-H adults who are implementing a state- or region-wide GIS training program for adult 4-H educators and adult volunteers with the specific intent that the trained educators will then introduce GIS technology to 4-H youth at the local level beginning with the 2013/2014 4-H enrollment year. This grant is intended to support the adult training and ongoing support needs for the 2013 4-H National Science Geospatial Experiment .This grant requires a written proposal as specified in the application and guidelines.
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The 4-H GIS Program provides GIS and geospatial technologies to young people and qualified adults involved with U.S. 4-H clubs and related state and national organizations. It is created in cooperation with the National 4-H Headquarters, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA).
This multifaceted program is intended to help 4-H expand the use of GIS technology in 4-H, Science, Citizenship, and Healthy Living programs that support nearly 6 million youth members. In recent years, 4-H has seen an explosion of interest around Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS). In an effort to highlight the highly relevant work of the land-grant university system, expose more 4-H youth to this cutting-edge subject area and highlight potential future career opportunities youth might have in this field, the 2013 4-H National Science Geospatial Experiment will focus on geospatial and geographic technology.
This multifaceted program is intended to help 4-H expand its current Science, Engineering and Technology (SET), Citizenship and Healthy Living programs that support nearly 7 million youth members.
4-H youth from around the United States are selected annually as members of The National 4-H GIS GPS Leadership Team. This youth and adult team provides leadership and act as GeoMentors to the hundreds of 4-H clubs across the nation using Esri GIS technology in their local projects and for local service learning projects. The National 4-H GIS GPS Leadership team members are active presenters and participants in the Esri Education User Conference and Esri International User Conference.
In conjunction with attending the Esri User Conferences in San Diego the Leadership team does a service learning project in the San Diego area. The 2011 National 4-H GIS GPS Leadership team assisted the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service professionals at the San Diego at the San Diego Bay National Wildlife Refuge - South Bay in mapping invasive and native plants for a new pedestrian trail.
4-H in Emergency Preparedness
4-H clubs around the U.S. are getting involved in emergency preparedness at their local community level. Several are beginning by helping local emergency official identify suitable locations within the community, or in neighboring communities that could be used as temporary pet shelters in the event of a community disaster.
The Alert, Evacuate and Shelter (AES) pilot project enabled 4-H, their families and their communities' to experience the geography of their local communities while helping their local emergency officials develop and build comprehensive emergency plans and maps for situations when citizens may need to be alerted, quickly evacuated, and sheltered during an emergency.
The AES project focuses on keeping communities safe that are located in hurricane ridden areas through the creation of evacuation and shelter maps and through the use of advanced geospatial technologies. AES encourages 4-H youth to use their acquired leadership skills to educate their communities and to provide assistance, and direction, to their community leaders on the safe evacuation and shelter of local citizens during a hurricane.
Nation 4-H Mission
The National 4-H mission is to empower youth to reach their full potential by working and learning in partnership with caring adults, and fostering opportunities for community engagement and service projects.
- 4-H Community content on ArcGIS Online.
- 4-H Community Atlas Projects—Look for 4-H Community Atlas projects that tell a story about a community. The McLean County Kentucky 4-H club was selected as the 2006-2007 Model Project.
- 4-H Youth Favorite Places—A national project that teaches 4-H youth about GIS and GPS while providing a community service.
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