CREST - Community for Rural Education Stewardship and Technology

The  "CREST" (Community for Rural Education Stewardship and Technology) project creates a partnership between  16 island and coastal high schools and middle schools, local science/technology businesses and organizations, and a number of academic institutions.

CREST Career Fair - 2008

CREST provides the tools for students and teachers to create place-based learning experiences that use technology to answer community resource stewardship questions. The core concepts of the CREST model methodology are to incorporate 1) Place-based Education, 2) Integrated technologies (GIS, Web Design, and Digital Storytelling), and 3)Sustainable Learning Communities/ Non-Hierarchial Learning to successfully implement STEM programming in rural school settings.  CREST events include professional-development opportunities for teachers, technology trainings for students and teachers, CREST career events for students, college campus visits, and summer training institutes.

Funded by the National Science Foundation, in partnership with the University of Maine Machias, and the College of the Atlantic.