Redlands, California-Tele Atlas, a leading global provider of digital map data and other geographic content, and ESRI will present five U.S. and Canadian educators with scholarships to attend the 2005 ESRI Education User Conference (EdUC).
Tele Atlas will provide recipients with $400 toward travel costs, and ESRI will provide complimentary admission to the conference in San Diego, California, July 23-26, 2005.
The travel scholarships are part of Tele Atlas’ long-standing commitment to supporting education through a variety of programs. Tele Atlas educational projects involve a range of activities that include company tours, school presentations, job shadowing, and developing and teaching courses at middle schools and colleges.
“Tele Atlas is proud to partner again with ESRI to offer scholarships to this year’s Education User Conference,” says Don Cooke, GDT founder and Tele Atlas information scientist. “Globalization makes geographic knowledge ever more important, and geography is best taught in the context of today’s GIS and GPS technologies. Today’s students quickly pick up on GIS, especially when it’s taught in the context of a real-world community project. They are then empowered by GPS and GIS and can function as peers with adults on local mapping projects and extrapolate their experience on a global scale.”
More than 600 K-12 teachers, college and university instructors, school administrators, librarians, and museum professionals from more than 30 countries are expected to attend the Fifth Annual EdUC. The conference brings together the ideas and experiences of a dynamic group of people with similar goals, leading to a forum for sharing. The scholarships provided by Tele Atlas and ESRI enable more educators to participate in the important event.
To apply for a scholarship, please send an e-mail to educ@esri.com with a brief (fewer than 200 words) essay explaining why you should receive a scholarship to attend the 2005 EdUC and how you will share the knowledge gained at the conference with other educators in your community. All applications must be received by June 3, 2005. For more information about the ESRI EdUC, please visit www.esri.com/educ.
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About Tele Atlas
Founded in 1984, Tele Atlas is a worldwide leading provider of digital maps and dynamic location content for a variety of navigation, location-based services and geospatial products and database solutions. Tele Atlas’ database is a highly accurate reproduction of today’s street network, enabling turn-by-turn route guidance on a high percentage of European, U.S., and Canadian roads. Tele Atlas’ compatibility with major navigation systems and its open system design have placed the company’s technology at the heart of both consumer and business-to-business applications worldwide. From logistics to marketing to traffic and fleet management, in almost every sector of today’s business and consumer world, Tele Atlas has built a reputation as an acknowledged pioneer and leader in the digital map industry. For more information, please www.teleatlas.com