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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thank you Victoria for this information. Great to see this initiative for students and thanks to you and all mentors who are helping making this possible. It is up to you and other mentors in this initiative to decide the
tasks for the students. In my humble opinion, it might be good </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">to think of a short literature review task for students on “The State of Open Education in Geospatial Science and How can I contribute?” to help them
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If it is a short report from the students then we can also have it published in the GeoForAll newsletters if Nikos thinks it is good idea.The students</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">can look at example ideas on the use of GIS in various domains (from biodiversity to town planning) to help with this task. For example, The lesson scenarios at GIS at School might be a good starting point
</span><a href="http://edugis.pl/en/for-teachers/guide" id="LPlnk320923" previewremoved="true"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">http://edugis.pl/en/for-teachers/guide</span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Maybe Ela and other colleagues in UNEP-Warsaw
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Victoria Rautenbach <victoria.rautenbach@gmail.com><br>
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<b>To:</b> Suchith Anand<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Ethan Zhao; geoforall@lists.osgeo.org; gsoc-adminosgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Geo4All] High school student looking to help Geo for All</font>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; font-size:12px">Suchith</span>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; font-size:12px">I am involved as a mentor with the Google Code-in and actually virtually met Ethan about a week or so ago when he worked on a QGIS task. </span></div>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; font-size:12px">For the Google Code-in, the organization (OSGeo) and mentors create a number of tasks, which the students can then complete, for example, download the GRASS source code and compile
it, or designing a logo for pgRouting. The students then spend 3-5 hours completing the task and get rated on how they complete the task and might win a number of prizes (</span><a href="https://codein.withgoogle.com" id="LPlnk563245" previewremoved="true">https://codein.withgoogle.com</a>)<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; font-size:12px">. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; font-size:12px">GCI
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<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; font-size:12px"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:"Helvetica Neue"; font-size:12px">There is currently not any tasks associated with GeoForAll, but we can still add any tasks.
If any specific tasks from the GeoForAll community, we can add it and I will be happy to assist with the "mentoring". I will see if I can formulate a task or two based on your previous email. </span></div>
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<div class="x_gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Suchith Anand <span dir="ltr">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Hi Ethan Zhao,</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thank you for your mail . GeoForAll is open to all not just universities. We are very grateful for you kindly volunteering to help GeoForAll by spreading the use of geospatial technology to everyone.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Every single volunteer for GeoForAll is our GeoAmbassodors. You are welcome to share GeoForAll ideas and resources to your parents, teachers , youth and welcome everyone to join. Please share the free and open Geo resources
that we have at </span><a href="http://www.geoforall.org/training/" id="x_m_9081144792108362942LPlnk896448" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">http://www.geoforall.org/<wbr>training/</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> to the wider community.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Some of the teaching resources created by GeoAcademy</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">might be of interest. All details and courses at
</span><a href="http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/" id="x_m_9081144792108362942LPlnk39138" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">http://spatialquerylab.com/<wbr>foss4g-academy-curriculum/</span></a></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Please also inform your teachers and youth for joining the next year’s NASA Europa challenge
</span><a href="http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it" id="x_m_9081144792108362942LPlnk402723" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">http://eurochallenge.como.<wbr>polimi.it</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><font face="Helvetica Neue" style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:12px">This
year's GODAN Local Farming </span></font><font face="Helvetica Neue" style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:12px">challenge </span></font><font face="Helvetica Neue" style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:12px">was
won by a team of High school students from USA who developed AgroSphere . Details at </span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols; font-size:12pt"><a href="https://github.com/NASAWorldWindResearch/AgroSphere/wiki" class="x_m_9081144792108362942OWAAutoLink" id="x_m_9081144792108362942LPlnk505930" target="_blank">https://github.com/<wbr>NASAWorldWindResearch/<wbr>AgroSphere/wiki</a> </span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thanks again for your kind help for GeoForAll.</span><br>
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on behalf of Ethan Zhao <<a href="mailto:ethanxyzhao@gmail.com" target="_blank">ethanxyzhao@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 14 December 2017 02:49<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:geoforall@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">geoforall@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Geo4All] High school student looking to help Geo for All</font>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px">My name is Ethan Zhao and I am in 10th grade in the US (Texas). I'm participating in this year's Google Code-In, and I was doing tasks for OSGeo when I noticed Geo for All. I was instantly hooked by Geo for All's mission statement
and motto. It perfectly combined my interests in geospatial technology and education of youth. Thus, I'd like to help contribute to Geo for All in spreading the use of geospatial technology to everyone.</div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px">I was told that Geo for All mainly operates at a university level, so I'm not sure if I would fit the requirements posted on the website. Could I jump in and help do anything that needs to be done? For example, while I may not
have as much experience with the remote sensing or QGIS yet, I could work on any programs needed for outreach, education, etc. or just spread the word about Geo for All.</div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">If you would like to learn more about me, my wiki page is at
</span><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Exyzhao" id="x_m_9081144792108362942LPlnk916652" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/<wbr>Exyzhao</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">.</span><br>
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