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Fifth Graders Get a Lesson in Geography from LizardTech
Company Visits Brighton School on GIS Day
SEATTLE, Wash. – Nov. 14, 2007 - LizardTech, a division of Celartem, Inc., and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing digital content, announced the company’s participation in GIS Day on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 by visiting Brighton School for a presentation about geography and geographic information systems (GIS), part of the international Geography Awareness Week.
The focus of LizardTech’s GIS Day presentation will be geography and the role it plays in everybody’s daily lives. Additionally, the evolution of technology and its impact on geographic information systems will be examined in light of the students’ current study of the American Revolutionary War. In their presentation, LizardTech representatives will display Revolutionary War era maps of the 13 original colonies, while quizzing the students and challenging them to identify the difficulties in map creation during that time period.
LizardTech’s goal through participation in GIS Day is to establish a mentor relationship with local youth. It is the company’s desire to introduce school children to and educate them in geography and GIS in general, thus engendering excitement about this field as a potential future career option. GIS Day is the perfect opportunity to help expose students to new technologies.
“By participating in GIS Day, LizardTech provides an opportunity for students to discover new technologies and curricula they may otherwise not have known about,” said Jon Skiffington, LizardTech Senior Product Manager for Geospatial Imaging.
GIS Day is held on the Wednesday during Geography Awareness Week. It was designed to promote geographic literacy in schools, communities, and organizations, with a focus on the education of children. More than 80 countries will participate in holding local events such as corporate open houses, hands-on workshops, community expos, school assemblies, and more.
About LizardTech
Since 1992, LizardTech has delivered state-of-the-art software products for managing and distributing massive, high-resolution geospatial data such as aerial and satellite imagery and LiDAR data. LizardTech pioneered the MrSID technology, a powerful wavelet-based image encoder, viewer, and file format. LizardTech has offices in Seattle, Denver, London and Tokyo. For more information about LizardTech, visit www.lizardtech.com.
About Celartem
Celartem Technology Inc. http://www.celartem.com develops and sells innovative technologies for storage, access and distribution of rich media content. Celartem has developed technology in the areas of digital image compression, scalable image viewing and secure content distribution and management. Celartem is listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange, JASDAQ: 4330. Established in 1996, Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Celartem Inc. d.b.a. LizardTech with headquarters in Portland, OR.
