Santa Ynez Valley Union High School

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Santa Ynez Valley Union High School

• Founders Award
• 2/02/04

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Andrew Murray Vineyard
GPS Mapping Project
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Andrew Murray Vineyard Project
Andrew Murray Vineyards came to the EAST Lab for
help mapping the grape vines of their vineyard.
We took a team of about 5 people went out to the
vineyard. Using the GeoExplorer 3 we walked
around all the grapevine patches and plotted
points. The vineyard was beautiful and we had a
lot of fun.
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Zoomed in map of plotted vineyards
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Goals

• Learn GPS/GIS technology in a useful community
  project
• Developed a partnership with an important local
  industry
• Plot and present the GIS maps to Andrew Murray
• Bring the SYVUHS Agriculture classes, along with
  teacher Kathy Bibby to the vineyard and into the
  EAST lab to teach them the technology and its
  capabilities
• Teach and instruct Ag students planning on
  attending Cuesta College and Cal Poly in GIS/GPS
  and have them plot our school farm

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EAST WEBSITE

• a project by nick mazza

www.syvpirates.org/east/
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More Screen Shots

• What the site looks like

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Dynamic News System?

• Written in PHP 4.0 by Nick Mazza and Sean Ford
• Uses a user/password authentication agent
• How it works
• a. IF/THEN statement
• 1. IF usernick and passwordnickspass THEN
  open ./news.php ELSE restart
• b. Uses a user/password authentication agent
• c. Parses inputs from NEWS Posting forms (Name,
  Email, Post) and formats them with HTML code then
  pre-pends the formatted code to a database
  file.
• d. Finally, a php script in index.php includes
  () this database file in its own HTML whenever
  the page is retrieved, making the process
  completely transparent to the user.
• This allows everyone in the class, even those
  completely unfamiliar with HTML, to post news to
  the site

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What is the value of the project to the
Community?

• Through the website, those interested in the
  EAST project will be able to see the happenings
  around the SY class. We also provide a plethora
  of links and resources to help educate those who
  would like to know more about specific products
  such as Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Flash, and
  Bentley Microstation.

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SYVUHS EAST Class Assists Elementary Students

• EAST helps with microscope work
• EAST is working on organizing and lending science
  materials

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Students create brochures for projects
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SYVUHS on TVHwy 154 and Vineyard
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EAST Presentations
Conferences and Rotary
Safe Schools
Art Shows
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State StandardsPosters for Elementary Schools

• By Jenna Pagaling

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New TA Badges
By Zac Wasserman
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Students helped math classes create tutorials
Intercept Form Graphin
Intercept Form y a (x p) (x q)
The axis of symmetry is the halfway point between
(p,0) and (q,0).
The x-intercept are p and q.
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(1, 9)
Axis of symmetry
Graph y - (x2) (x-4)

• To graph the function
• The x-intercepts are at (-2, 0) and (4,0).
• The axis of symmetry lies halfway between these
  points, at x 1
• The x-coordinate of the vertex is x 1 and the
  y-coordinate of the vertex is
• y -(12) (1-4) 9

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(-2, 0)
(4, 0)
Who feels like they are going to throw up?
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EAST 2003 ConferenceSuccess
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School Safety
A brief description of the project East has put
together information and blueprints for every
classroom, so in case of an emergency the
students will be able to find a safe way out of
the campus.
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The Blueprint

• Gary Kersey presented me with this project. He
  asked if I would be able to print out blueprints
  on the EAST plotter. This task was very
  successful and led into other bigger projects
  including the, Storm Drain Project.

Blueprint of Santa Ynez Valley Union High School
Mikey Carlson and Gary Kersey
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EAST works on coastal water quality and surf spots
Study Region
(50) Watersheds ranging from 10-50 km2
Santa Barbara Channel
Ventura River, 590 km2
Santa Clara River, 4200 km2
Los Angeles, CA
Multi-source Land Cover Data (2002 v1) California
Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
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Stream Gauging Sampling Sites
City of Santa Barbara, CA
Gaviota
Refugio
El Capitan
Arroyo Hondo
Mission
Arroyo Burro
Santa Monica Franklin
Carpinteria
Rincon
Santa Barbara Channel
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Land Use Change, Urban Growth Model
Urban Agricultural Forested
UCSB
1998
City of Santa Barbara
Projected 2050
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I taught my Pre-Calc class to use Softimage

• First we got a sphere.
• Then we learned to move the sphere in relation to
  the XYZ coordinates.
• After, we learned to make a quick animation
  making the sphere bounce.

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• Lastly, we changed the coordinates on the face.

THE END
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San Marcos Pass
afety
roject
ission
Santa Ynez High School East Lab
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Our GIS students downloaded satellite photos from
TerraServer and applied them to the map to
clarify make the map.
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Students meet with CHP and plan project using 4
years of data
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Community Interaction We chose to make a project
out of Highway 154 because we thought it could
potentially help the community stay safe on 154
and also make them aware of the possibility of an
accident. The community is definitely involved
and will benefit from our work. Our project is
going to be put on the East web site that we
created for our school, so it can be viewed by
the public. Officer Moncher of the California
Highway Patrol, who provided us with all the
information about the accidents, let us know that
he gets calls constantly from people wanting
information about accidents on Hwy 154. He said
that this will be a major help to him and to the
community.
The Highway 154 project was also
used in
the physics classes finding
the difference in stopping
distance
while sober and while under the
influence
of alcohol. We have met with Mr. Burton, the
Drivers Education teacher, at SYVUHS. He will
have us present our work, video, and data to all
his students to inform them of our involvement in
the community. We have also met with Mr. Kuehn,
health teacher, at SYVUHS to present our Hwy 154
project and present the drinking and driving
accident to them.
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Communication The goals of our project are very
clear to us. We have to make highway 154 safer
and promote our data to the public so they can
benefit from it. We contacted two different
teachers at our school to present the hwy
154 project to their classes. Mr. Kuehn, health
teacher, and Mr. Burton, drivers education
teacher, wanted us to present the project to
their classes to make the awareness of DUIs on
the highway.
Mr. Burton
Mr. Kuehn
This tree is the fatal crash site of a person
from our community. People lay flowers here
every Week.
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Community Service Value We thought of this
project because there are many people in the
Santa Ynez Valley also in Santa Maria who
commute to Santa Barbara daily using Highway
154, opposed to the longer, safer Highway 101.
Obviously shown by our data accidents occur
frequently caused by either bad driving or poor
road conditions.
Problem Solving Throughout this project we
have had many hills to climb over and
obstacles to work around. We have used our
resources to our advantage, we have also
taught and guided each other to learn to use
the different tools we needed throughout the
duration of our project. Two of our students
attended the GPS/GIS camp and transferred
their knowledge of using the Geo Explorer 3 to
our students so they could plot the accident
points. We asked the Highway Patrol to bring
us data of all the accidents from 1999 2002 on
Highway 154. We had to find a way to convert all
of the raw data into something people could
understand. So using the California Highway
Patrol Vehicle Code book we determined the
different types of accidents that had occurred
in those years.
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Matt Pederson, an East student, sectioned off
areas of Hwy 154 and identified the types of
accidents and made conclusions from what
information he was provided with. These were
provided to the CHP office and are displayed
there.
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Slowly we got the points plotted and created a
map of Hwy 154 with the accident points.
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MBARI Monterey Bay Multibeam Survey
4 EAST Facilitators Spend 1 week together Using
GIS
Big Sur Pockmark Field
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Dynamic GIS Geography, History, Conservation
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GIS mapping was essential to drawing the
conclusions and being able to finish this
project. -Tim, class GIS/GPS expert.
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Santa Inés Aqueduct Mission Project
The Water Supply Mystery Santa Ynez Valley High
School
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Dynamic GIS Geography, History, Conservation
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UCSB PROFESSIONAL COMMENTS
How impressed I am by your creative and
academically sound approach to mapping the
aqueduct Dr. Knox Mellon - State Director of
Historic Preservation Wow, your project is
fascinating and of great value to the students
and for local history. Dr. Patricia Cohen -
Department Chair of History, UCSB You are well
beyond the findings in the National Registry
report. You have done a great job documenting the
aqueduct and have effectively integrated it into
an educational format Dr. Mike Glassow
Department Chair of Anthropology, UCSB This is
the best marriage of archaeology, geophysics, and
historical research to solve a particular
problem, that I have EVER seen! Dr. Robert
Hoover Professor Emeritus Cal Poly SLO
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GIS GPS
Red GPS points known aqueduct remains
positions.
Back in the EAST classroom, students Tim
Manchester, Erin Gnekow and Clay Garland assisted
by Erik Glendinning used Arcview 3.3 to draw a
buffer delineating the 500 foot contour line
overlaid onto current USGS topographic maps. 3
D maps were also created. Students had to
reproject the data and add plotted GPS aqueduct
sites using Trimble Geoexplorer 3 units and
projected data. Using this data and extrapolating
about a possible route based on elevation showed
that all known sites fell on this route.
Chapman Mill Complex
500-520ft. Contour
Mission