City/State of School, School District, or Group: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Grade level of students you or your educator collaborator work/worked with (if applicable): 11th & 12th
Subject/topic of class/group you assisted your collaborator with: Computer Science
Approximately how many students were engaged in GIS activities through this collaboration: 12
How did you connect with your collaborator? I connected with [him] through his wife, who is a friend of my sister's and who is also a high school teacher at a neighboring high school. I approached [him] over the summer (post Esri UC) at our local neighborhood pool in regards a possible Geomentor relationship. At the pool I was reading the Crossing Borders column by Doug Richardson, Making a Difference for Students in Our Communities Summer 2015 ArcNews (page 29). We collaborated over ArcNews and I asked [him] if he was interested in being my first school to mentor. He said absolutely and from there we began
