Middle and high school students celebrate GIS Day
Students from Ray High School test-fly a drone at the Del Mar College Center for Economic Development on Nov. 13 for their 21st annual event.
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Students from Ray High School test-fly a drone at the Del Mar College Center for Economic Development on Nov. 13 for their 21st annual event.
Students gather around to learn about new technological advances at a previous GIS Day.
Azrael Montoya amontoya@foghornnews.com Participants in the 19th annual Coastal Bend GIS Day discovered a world of possibilities. “If you’re into electronics and building stuff, this is the field for you,” Del Mar College GIS major Tori Atokuk-Vitz said at the event, held Nov. 15 at the Center for Economic Development. Leonel Deleon, a GIS major at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, said that with an array of skills, geospatial technology is in everything. The community came together at the event to get hands-on experience with drones, learn mapping, and more about applications in GIS technology. “GIS in a sense is like…