National Geospatial Technology Center (NGT Center)

国家地理空间技术中心（NGT中心）是由七所社区学院、一个社区和技术学院系统以及一所四年制大学与代表全国所有地区的行业、州和地方政府合作建立的伙伴关系。为了更好地为美国21世纪的劳动力做好准备，NGT中心的愿景是在新兴地理空间技术的各个方面为社区和技术学院提供领导。为了帮助增加地理空间技术专业人员的数量、多样性和质量，NGT中心的使命是改善社区和技术学院水平的地理空间技术教育。智力优势：NGT中心有潜力改变地理空间技术人员的准备和继续教育，以满足国家劳动力需求，其目标是：(1)创建一个示范性地理空间课程材料、资源和国家地理数据库网络服务的国家信息交换中心；(2)通过新的伙伴关系和合作，为两年制学院提供统一的声音，提高其培养地理空间技术人员的能力；(3)提高地理空间技术人员的数量、质量和多样性，以满足美国的劳动力需求；(4)增加社区和技术学院地理空间教师和中学教师参与地理空间专业发展的数量；(5)打造自给自足的地理空间技术中心。更广泛的影响：NGT的机构合作伙伴为不同的学生群体提供服务，包括两所西班牙裔服务学院和两所位于东南部的非裔美国学生。这些合作伙伴继续在整个服务地区和其他地区扩展他们为西班牙裔和非洲裔美国学生提供的网络。残疾人，特别是残疾退伍军人，为地理空间技术工作者提供了尚未开发的资源。NGT中心正在与各种残疾机构合作，以更好地满足这一人群的需求，包括整合辅助技术设备。NGT中心的合作伙伴积极出席各种活动，以提高教育工作者对可用资源的认识，保持与行业劳动力指导需求的联系，并成为两年制课程的统一声音。该团队不仅致力于接触传统的渠道，而且还致力于接触新的和非传统的团体，如创新联盟、职业和技术教育协会、全国县协会、美国地质学会、美国地质联合会、美国印第安人企业发展国家中心、国家贸易、技术和科学妇女研究所和美国退伍军人事务部。

The National Geospatial Technology Center (NGT Center) is a partnership of seven community colleges, a community and technical college system, and a four-year university in collaboration with industry and state and local governments representing all regions of the country. In order to better prepare America's 21st century workforce, the vision of the NGT Center is to provide leadership to community and technical colleges in all aspects of emerging geospatial technology. To help increase the number, diversity, and quality of geospatial technology professionals, the mission of the NGT Center is to improve geospatial technology education at the community and technical college level. Intellectual Merit: The NGT Center has the potential to transform the preparation and continuing education of geospatial technicians to meet national workforce demand through its goals to: (1) create a national clearinghouse of exemplary geospatial curriculum materials, resources, and national geodatabase web services; (2) provide a unified voice for two-year colleges and increase their capacity to educate geospatial technicians through new partnerships and collaborations; (3) increase the quantity, quality and diversity of geospatial technicians to meet U.S. workforce needs; (4) increase the number of community and technical college geospatial faculty and secondary school teachers participating in geospatial professional development; and (5) create a self-sustaining center for geospatial technology. Broader Impacts: The institutional partners of NGT serve a diverse student population and include two Hispanic Serving Colleges and two in the Southeast with significant African American enrollment. These partners continue to expand their networks for Hispanic and African American students throughout their service regions and beyond. Individuals with disabilities, especially disabled veterans, provide an untapped resource for geospatial technology workers. The NGT Center is working with various disability agencies to better meet the needs of this population, including the integration of assistive technology devices. The NGT Center partners are actively presenting at a variety of events to increase awareness of resources available to educators, maintain ties to industry workforce instruction needs, and become a unifying voice for two-year programs. The team is dedicated to reaching not only the traditional outlets, but also to new and nontraditional groups such as the League for Innovation, the Association for Career and Technology Education, the National Association of Counties, the Geological Society of America, the American Geological Union, the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development, the National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science, and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.