USN wins Tennessee ArcGIS Online Mapping Contest
by Pat Miletich, history teacher
High School students' project on lynching in Tennessee combined history, social justice, and the technology of geospatial information systems.
High School students' project on lynching in Tennessee combined history, social justice, and the technology of geospatial information systems.
Brooke Burgess '19, Emma Dundon '18, Gabriel Faulcon '18, Mia Greenberg '18 and Jaran Huggins '18 won a state competition this summer for their recent research on lynching in Tennessee. Their project was part of the Black Experience course in the spring, and it contributed to a growing national debate about confronting our past and grappling with painful racial issues.
Lynching is a timely topic with the opening of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery's opening of the Legacy Museum & Memorial for Peace and Justice. The Black Experience class read Bryan Stevenson's "Just Mercy" as students collected information on lynching and used Chronicling America of the Library of Congress, online databases of lynching statistics, historical data from Tuskegee College and the NAACP's studies of lynching in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Presenting their findings in a map journal allowed students to combine history, social justice, and the technology of geospatial information systems. Click here to view their final project.
The Tennessee ArgGIS Online Mapping Contest was sponsored by ESRI, a Geographic Information Systems software company. Each USN student received a cash prize, and their submission was considered by the ESRI committee at the ESRI Education Summit in San Diego in July.
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