Funding amount: $563,598

Start and end dates: 10/01/19 to 9/30/21

The white paper concerns introducing Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to high school students. The Center for International Trade & Transportation (CITT) at CSULB is building on its "GIS Day" workshop piloted at the Port of Long Beach's Academy of Global Logistics at Cabrillo High School in West Long Beach, CA, as well as GIS activities developed for community college and professional-level courses. Additionally, CITT is developing an introductory GIS workshop for high school students with a focus on sustainable transportation. The activity will consist of students creating a Story Map on the mobility-related topic of their choosing using freely available geospatial data focused on sustainable transportation. The workshop will be piloted at one to two high schools near each of the National Center for Sustainable Transportation UTC partner universities: University of Vermont, Georgia Tech, University of California - Davis, University California - Riverside, University of Southern California, and CSULB. The workshop will draw from the conclusions gathered from the GIS white paper.