“A Urinary Track to the Shore: Where to go when you’ve gotta go” –Teresa Masterson
jerseyshorerestroom.com
Jersey Shore Restroom gets coverage from NBC! Like it’s parent project, nyrestroom.com, njshorerestroom.com utilizes the same interactive mapping application Mappler to help beach-goers and tourists locate restrooms in the area, especially families with children! Data points were found and uploaded byDr. Im and interns.
You can bring your baiting suits, umbrellas, beach chairs, and lots of food and drinks to enjoy your time spent at the beach. A restroom is the one thing you can’t bring to the beach! -jerseyshorerestroom.com
GPS saves mileage and provides more leisure.
My family and I have recently gone on a college tour trip in Boston. On the highway it was difficult to locate our destination, while we were smack dab in the middle of a long complicated, winding, labyrinth composed of hidden roads, and dead ends. Dazed, we didn’t know what to do. However, the new technology, GPS, lifted us up from our miseries…. While we were frantically trying to find a way out of the city, we spotted a nearby Target store. Buying the GPS with a 20% discount (i love discounts. don’t you?), it took us 1/6 the wasted time driving around and around in confusion. GPS saves our time and money for those tired car driving venturers. It truly left us with a happy ending. With GPS, we found the famous ”No Name” restaurant in Boston and ate its renowned clam chowder along with garlic bread. If we didn’t buy the GPS we would’ve been going around in muddled circles and would’ve slept in a hotel with an unhappy stomach!
-jocelyn im
Celebrate New Jersey-4th Grade School Program (2008 “Best of the Best” Student Authors)
Celebrate New Jersey was formed in August 2006 as a nonprofit organization. It started as a joint venture of the Crossroads of the American Revolution Association. The program is an individual project in which 4th graders from all over the state compete for the ultimate prize. For this project, the students are to write essays about people and places in NJ as well as historical events that have taken place in the state. Choosing one of these categories, they write how each of these sections contributes to making our New Jersey a special state among the 50 states of America. The program gives the students an outlet by allowing them to tell others what they learned from their research and their assignment. The students and the teacher’s hard effort later paid off in the statewide writing contest. These students have demonstrated that New Jersey is truly a special state to live in.
-Asad Hussain, Jocelyn Im
About Gis4kids’ Wansoo Im
The person who started this all is Dr. Wansoo Im. He is currently an adjunct professor at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He has devoted much time to complete projects that help the community. He has also been very active in the GIS area while broadening the community’s view of GIS. He has utilized Google applications to form a new application, Mappler, that will alleviate us from our difficulties in locating the place we want to go to.
In the near future, he will be completing other community projects that integrate the Mappler application in the project. The Bike Project that will be recently updated is the one that we have been working on. The details of this project are provided in one of the posts below.
Garfield Project-Wii for Health
I have participated in a gis4kids project for promoting health through use of video games like the Nintendo Wii. In Garfield YMCA, we utilized two Wiis and formed a tennis competition with the kids. Before they started the competition, we measured their body weight, height, and also their blood pressure. The kids’ use of Wii provides great incentives for working out. Not only are children allowed to play video games and to compete for a prize but they also get a chance to by physically active. By conducting this study we want to show how Wii promotes health for the community and whether or not it is a good intervention/prevention for obesity and the disorders associated with it.
-jocelyn im
WWBPA-West Windsor Bicycle and Pedestrian Alliance
This site tries to promote greater access to walkways and bike lanes for pedestrians and bike riders. It provides this particular bevy of people with accessible locations to bike and walk by coming up with proposals for the current West Windsor mayor, Shing-Fu Hsueh, on the placement of sidewalks, bike pathways, and other pedestrian roads. Not only do these proposals promote accessibility, but also more security for bike riders and pedestrians. By bringing forth these ideas, traffic can be decreased. In order to have for fulfillment of these goals, the program is offering many volunteer opportunities to the community to fund raise for these projects. GIS4KIDS has contributed to the effort by offering its Mappler application and the WWBPA can take advantage of Mappler’s utilities to improve people’s lives by helping them to find the locations that are available for bike riding and walking.
-jocelyn
http://www.wwbpa.org
Hi
I am really excited for GIS4KIDS. By posting information on its contributions regularly, I hope that other users will be interested in its projects.
-jocelyn
Hi!!! I’m a teacher naturalist at SBMWA
Its great to be here~!
