CREST - Community for Rural Education Stewardship and... -
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Published on: 11/22/2005
Last Visited: 5/1/2008
According to Mike Kimball, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Maine at Machias, the CREST project will foster a much-needed sense of connection to-and stewardship of-the rural communities participating students call home.Kimball, another of the principal investigators of the NSF grant, said: "We hope this project will foster in participating students a sense of wanting to give back to their community in the future, and of seeing the potential in technology as a way of giving back."The University of Maine at Machias, Kimball noted, "is uniquely positioned as a partner in the grant, with a fully functional GIS facility and a major focus on connecting the work we do as a university with the concerns and needs of our surrounding rural communities."