For GIS Day this year, I had the opportunity to participate in a Savannah Public Schools celebration and share what our GIS office does within the county’s engineering department. I talked with middle school aged students about how we use GIS for infrastructure planning, stormwater projects, and countywide data management, but the highlight of the day was definitely the LiDAR demo. We brought our terrestrial scanner and completed a live LiDAR scan of the school gym where the event was hosted. The students were fascinated to watch the point cloud appear in real time and asked the most amount of questions about the LiDAR scanning.
In addition to the indoor tabling activities, the school set up an orienteering course outside where the kids could practice basic navigation skills using maps and compasses. It was a great way for them to get hands-on experience and see how spatial thinking applies beyond computers. The event felt like an open-house style celebration with plenty of informal conversations with students and other event participants, lots of questions, and demonstrations. Overall, it was a rewarding way to spend GIS Day, and it was fun to see some of the students so engaged with discussions and eager to learn more about how GIS is incorporated into their everyday life.
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