CORSE 2007 - Conference on Remote Sensing Education

Conference Costs for CORSE 2007

Program begins Monday, June 25, 2007, 8:00 AM, and ends Friday, June 29, mid-afternoon.

Hotel
Inn at the Finger Lakes - Auburn

Conference Rate: $30.00 (plus tax) per person per night for one room with 2 double beds, double occupancy with a roommate of your choice. The hotel can also assign you a roommate.
If you do not want a roommate you will have to pay the full conference rate of $60 per night.
Rooms are limited.
Daily Continental breakfast (6-10 AM) and small evening reception (5-7 PM) are included for all hotel guests.

Meals:
The following meals are included with the conference:

Lunch at CCC — Monday - Friday
Dinners on selected evenings (TBD)

Successful community service projects require a team working together toward a common goal. Therefore, scholarships are available to a limited number of New York State applicants this year who register as part of a 3-person team. Teams consist of:

K-14 teacher
7th-12th grade student
and local public official (such as a member of a town board, planning committee, etc or a community volunteer).

The scholarships cover the following costs for each team member:

Registration fee (which includes the GPS unit)
Lodging Sunday – Thursday nights (2 to a room)
Lunches and dinners

Be sure to include your team mates on the application if you are interested in receiving scholarships.

The conference committee is currently seeking other sources of funding to provide similar scholarships to applicants who do not come as part of a team or come from outside New York State. There is no guarantee we will get additional funding, so please be prepared to pay these costs yourself.

Please contact us if you have specific questions not answered here.

Special Opportunity for Finger Lakes Science Teachers

The GIT Ahead Project (Website) is a collaborative effort among the Finger Lakes Institute at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Cornell University, The Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology (IAGT), and Cayuga Community College. The GIT Ahead Project provides opportunities for teachers to learn about geographic information technologies (GIT), such as GIS, GPS, Google Earth, Google Maps, and a variety of geospatial web-based resources as they develop and identify science lesson and unit plans for their classroom.

Conference attendees will be able to earn one graduate credit hour course entitled "GIT in the Classroom" from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse , NY by attending the entire conference. Visit here to see the course description and costs. Full information will be on the registration form.

Conference attendees will be able to earn one undergraduate credit hour course entitled "Special Topics in GIT" from Cayuga County Community College by attending the entire conference. Full information and costs are here.