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MapTEACH students have traveled to professional conferences to represent exceptional work carried out not only by themselves, but by their classmates, and their schools.

Just like the more experienced geoscientists and geospatial IT specialists they met, the students were engaged in authentic science activities; and their presentations were well-received.

Students		Presentations at Professional Conferences
Map Poster Credit: Charles		California Geographic Society, Borrego Springs, CA 3/16-18/2007 Two Alaskan eighth-graders were the youngest people to ever present at a conference of the California Geographic Society. Both students received Certificates of Appreciation and one won at 3rd-place cash award for "Electronic Mapping". They also enjoyed field trips to palm springs and the Salton Sea in the Anza-Borrego Desert.
Photo: MapTEACH		Assoc. of Pacific Coast Geographers, Eugene, OR 9/7/2006 Four students from the Effie Kokrine Charter School in Fairbanks presented at the Assoc. of Pacific Coast Geographers Conference. Their session was Science, Technology, and Local Landscape Knowledge: Alaskan Middle School Students Apply GIS to Individualized Mapping Topics. Activities included geological field trips along the Oregon coast .

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