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Optional short intro to this person. For the past 25 years, Philip Conkling's life has been grounded by experiences among the 5,000 or so islands in the archipelago of Gulf of Maine.

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CREST Career Fair 2009

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Monday November 23rd, 2009

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CREST Career Fair, University of Maine at Farmington
CREST Career Fair, University of Maine at Farmington
CREST Career Fair, University of Maine at Farmington
CREST Career Fair, University of Maine at Farmington
CREST Career Fair, University of Maine at Farmington
CREST Career Fair, University of Maine at Farmington - Lunch in the Dining Hall

CREST Summer Institute 2009

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Tuesday August 4th, 2009

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GeoHunt
Group Challenge
Group Challenge
Group Challenge
HTML Challenge

CREST Summer Institutes 2008

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Monday July 28th, 2008

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Conners Emerson Student, MDI
Learning GPS, Isle Au Haut team
Team Planning, Deer Isle Elementary team
Swans Island students
Isle Au Haut students
Group Challenge, Vinalhaven team

2008 Maine Island Scholarship Awards Banquet

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Friday June 20th, 2008

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2008 Maine Island Scholarship Recipients
Amelia Campbell of North Haven received the Academic and Community Leadership Scholarship
Caitlin Anderson of Islesboro
Christina Spurling of Cranberry Isles
Danielle Rich of Chebeague
John Clark of Long Island

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree

The Importance of Working Waterfronts

1:18, Embed Code

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree talks about the bill she introduced to support working waterfronts in Maine and around the country, courtesy of YouTube.com

Bridging Culture, Community & Science

Inside ITEST Summit

5:44, Quicktime

A comprehensive project for students and teachers, CREST networks 11 island and coastal schools in rural Maine with academic institutions, community stakeholders and IT professionals, to integrate STEM into community-based curriculum projects. Most of CREST’s target population lives in Maine's most remote areas, where opportunities for IT learning are rare. The program’s interdisciplinary approach aims to get students from rural areas excited about how they can use technology to improve their community and how they can apply their love of technology in a future career. Each individual CREST project weaves three focus technologies – web design, ethnography, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) into a curriculum addressing the community’s unique challenges. In the featured profile students work with the State marine conservation agency and local fishermen to track critical changes in the lobster population. Students experience first-hand how to apply marine biology, data collection and GIS mapping skills acquired in a formal setting, to support the struggling commercial lobster fishery – the heart of their community’s economy and culture. Another strand of the project artfully weaves sophisticated GIS technology and mapping, Web design, and boat building into a student-inspired ethnography research project to tell the proud story of their ancestors – the Deer Isle Boys.
 

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