GIS workshop offered at Expanding Your Horizons Conference

Kay Anderson, GISP, GIS Programs Manager at Cass County Government and Carol Wickenheiser, GISP, Lead GIS Specialist for AE2S, Inc. partnered with MSUM students Caroline Wirries and Alexander Johnson and Dr. David Kramar, Anthropology and Earth Sciences, to present the workshop, “Mapping Your World,” as part of the Expanding Your Horizons Conference on April 7. This conference invites young women in the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades in Minnesota and North Dakota to explore careers which rely upon mathematical, critical thinking and analysis skills. As part of the “Mapping Your World” workshop, participants created their first map using ArcGIS Online and explored local, national and worldwide GIS data resources.