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

农村教育、管理和技术社区（CREST）是一个面向学生和教师的综合性项目，目前将岛屿研究所、缅因-马基亚斯大学、鲍登学院以及11所岛屿和沿海学校联合起来，组成一个学习社区，直接影响55名学生和44名教师，间接影响1,700名学生。CREST专注于为缅因州最偏远地区的学生和教师提供数据库开发、GIS制图、网页设计和人种学研究技能。这种跨学科的、基于标准的方法正在将学生与他们的社区重新联系起来，并通过基于缅因湾周围生态系统的当地服务学习项目，为适用的IT和STEM职业提供见解。CREST以技术为工具，以在地教育为载体，为期两年的续期将扩大到16所学校，共有168名参与者和一个新的区域大学合作伙伴，继续展示信息技术和STEM研究和职业多样化的更多方式，并支持以自然资源为基础的社区和经济。

Community for Rural Education, Stewardship and Technology (CREST), a comprehensive project for students and teachers, currently networks the Island Institute, University of Maine-Machias, Bowdoin College, and 11 island and coastal schools in a learning community that 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 16 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.