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Today, Wednesday, November 16th is GIS Day. Because of a quirk in class schedule, the Geography teachers at Yorktown High School in Arlington, Virginia, celebrated it Monday, November 14. Jennifer Shearin organized presentations from NGA and Esri for seven sections of AP Human Geography at YHS. Mike Cantwell, a GEOINT Officer at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency gave 160 students an understanding of the importance of their mission. Humanitarian work in Haiti following Hurricane Matthew was showcased from http:\/\/nga.maps.arcgis.com\/<\/a>.
\nCurt Hammill and Brooke Rippy, from the Defense Team at Esri explained<\/a> how the gift from Esri and Amazon to every school in America could help YHS. Brooke signed up all 160 students for ArcGIS Online accounts at www.arcgis.com<\/a>. Brooke told the students how she found a job at Esri. \u201cI was interested in Geology, Environmental Science, and Urban Planning, and realized at George Mason University that they all were joined by Geography. I\u2019m excited to work at the company that invented GIS.\u201d
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Mike Cantwell \u2013 GEOINT Officer at NGA, Jennifer Shearin \u2013 Geography Teacher,
Brooke Rippy \u2013 Defense Team at Esri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nMike is reaching out to YHS as a part of NGA\u2019s Partners in Education (PIE) program. He remarked, \u201cThe Human Geography students at Yorktown High School now have a better understanding of the NGA mission and how NGA uses ArcGIS to support our Intelligence Community and Department of Defense customers.\u201d
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\nJennifer\u2019s students have been working with Esri Storymaps to understand better the refugee crisis in Syria.http:\/\/storymaps.esri.com\/stories\/2013\/syria\/<\/a> She remarked, “ArcGIS.com is a hands on way to teach geography. It’s a new way that resonates with my students.”
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\nIt\u2019s safe to say that the first class of the first schoolday in the Eastern Standard timezone in the week of GIS Day would be the first one to celebrate. With 160 sophomores, juniors and senior students in only the second year of the AP Human geography program, it\u2019s clear that Jennifer and her colleagues earned the honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[279192,275862,275962,276562],"tags":[277222,163382,162592,165252,1811],"class_list":["post-8843","insider","type-insider","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-development","category-industry-focus","category-managing-gis-2","category-storytelling-maps","tag-academic","tag-arcgis-online","tag-education","tag-geography","tag-story-maps"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nYorktown High School Opens GIS Day 2016 for the Nation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/yorktown-high-school-opens-gis-day-2016-for-the-nation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yorktown High School Opens GIS Day 2016 for the Nation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today, Wednesday, November 16th is GIS Day. 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