If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I have a personal connection with SkillsUSA and the Geospatial Technology contest as I competed in 2009. I believe that it is a great program with a lot of potential. This year’s competition expanded to include a high school competition [...]
It is getting about that time to be thinking about the 2010 SkillsUSA Geospatial Technology Competition. As I have not seen much about it for this year, I contacted Eddie Hanebuth (@GISguy). Eddie is the president of Digital Quest, and is on the competition committee. He was happy to fill me in about this [...]
The 2009 Geospatial Technology Competition has been a wild and crazy journey. It all started just over five weeks ago with a project manual being sent by Digital Quest. The project entailed doing a site suitability analysis of a school campus to locate a suitable garden spot. It took the entire five weeks, but I [...]
I have made it to Kansas City with no problems. I did not have any problems other than trying to check in at the Charlotte airport. I was glad we got there a little early. The flight into Detroit was a bit choppy as there was a heavy cloud cover. I found Detroit Airport to [...]
Several weeks back I wrote the post Insight from Inaugural SkillsUSA Geospatial Technology Winner. In addition to Sue, I was also able to contact another winner, June Garneau. June provided some more valuable information as well. Although older than most of the contestants, she is an example for all of us. Here are some of her [...]
I have found it difficult to get registered for the SkillsUSA conference. Registering for the Geospatial Competition was very straight forward through Digital Quest’s page. I guess if I would be going through my state delegation it might be easier, but I am at this all alone. I am doing something like a direct membership. [...]
I have been quiet out on the web lately. Nothing new over at GIS Pathway and very few tweets on my Twitter page. I have been over my head in this geospatial technology competition project. I have been given five weeks to complete everything and two weeks have almost completly gone by. With three weeks [...]
It has arrived! The SkillsUSA Geospatial Technology Competition project package was delivered this afternoon by UPS. It was sent by Digital Quest. My wife was kind enough to call me once it arrived. It was kind of hard to work after that, but I made it through the rest of the day. Although she denies [...]
I had the opportunity to correspond with Sue Roussie this past week. Sue competed in and won the first SkillsUSA Geospatial Technology Competition in 2006. She considered herself one of the guinea pigs as everything was new. Looking back she saw the original questions on the preliminary qualification as a nightmare. Some of the questions [...]
Yesterday was a really big day for me. Not only was it my birthday, but I had several people step up to show their support for me and this competition. @Iowaarcheryboy @gletham @MikeHogan & @Geothinkers all took the time to tweet my need for support yesterday. Many others over the last few days have also [...]
