On Tuesday, May 19, 2015, the students of Ryan Miller’s Geospatial Tools and Techniques in GIS gathered to present their final projects in the auditorium of Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia. The course is a collaboration between Washington-Lee High School and James Madison University where students who take the course have the chance to earn six credits in GIS at JMU. The students in the course had worked over the course of the year to master the basics of using ArcGIS and learning how to manipulate and analyze geospatial data.
During the second semester of the year-long course students devote