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项目，目前将岛屿学院、缅因州马基亚斯大学、鲍登学院以及11所岛屿和沿海学校组成一个学习社区，直接影响到55名学生和44名教师，并间接影响到另外1 700名学生。佳洁士专注于向缅因州最偏远地区的学生和教师提供数据库开发、地理信息系统制图、网页设计和民族志研究技能。这种基于标准的跨学科方法正在将学生重新连接到他们的社区，并通过位于缅因湾周围生态系统的当地服务学习项目，提供对适用的IT和STEM职业的洞察。CREST为期两年，以技术为工具，以地方教育为载体，将扩展到16所学校，168名参与者和一个新的地区大学合作伙伴，继续展示信息技术和STEM学习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.