Geographical Information Systems Technology Implementation Project (GIS-TECH)

地理技术实施项目的主要目标是建设培训地理信息系统技术人员的能力和基础设施。为此，地理信息系统技术项目仿照非常成功的思科网络技术学院模式，德尔玛学院自1999年以来一直教授该模式。与思科一样，地理信息系统技术学院创建了一个模范学院，强调培训培训者课程，并鼓励指导少数族裔和女性学生进入地理信息系统技术领域。地理信息系统技术项目将创建一个可持续的系统，为中学教师、行业技术人员和第一反应人员提供地理信息系统培训。该项目的指导部分对于提供有效和可持续的成果至关重要。地理信息系统技术项目以两种不同的方式提供指导：1)培训中学教师，他们随后将成为高中地理信息系统项目的倡导者；2)与围棋部队和Tache少数族裔招募和指导项目合作。地理信息系统技术项目还在开发新的、针对特定领域的地理信息系统课程。利用该领域专家的人才和努力，该项目正在开发三个新的特定领域的地理信息系统课程。该项目为地理信息系统技术人员从高中到社区学院再到大学的无缝过渡提供了一个模式。这个项目的智力价值在于它对地理信息系统教育的有针对性的方法，重点是计算机技术方面的地理信息系统的实施和使用，而这些程序通常是缺失的。该项目更广泛的影响在于该项目目标学生受众的多样性，其中包括很大比例的西班牙裔和女性学生。

The main goal of the Geographical Technology Implementation Project (GIS-TECH) is to build both the capacity and infrastructure for training GIS technicians. To this end, the GIS-TECH project is modeled after the highly successful Cisco Networking Academy model, which Del Mar College has taught since 1999. Like Cisco, GIS-TECH creates a model academy that emphasizes a train-the-trainer curriculum and encourages mentoring of minority and female students into the GIS technology field. The GIS-TECH project will create a sustainable system to provide GIS training to secondary teachers, industry technicians and first responders. The mentoring component of the project is critical to providing effective and sustainable results. The GIS-TECH program provides mentoring in two distinct ways: 1) training of secondary teachers who will then become advocates for the GIS program in high school and 2) collaboration with the GO Force and TACHE minority recruitment and mentoring programs. The GIS-TECH project is also developing new, domain-specific GIS curricula. Leveraging the talents and efforts of experts in the field, the project is developing three new domain-specific GIS courses. The project provides a model for the seamless transition of GIS technicians from high school to community college to the university. The intellectual merit of this project lies in its targeted approach to GIS education, focusing the computer technology aspects of GIS implementation and use that are normally missing from such programs. The broader impacts of the project lie in diversity of the project's intended student audience, which includes large percentages of Hispanic and female students.