Week 11 - Final Project

Iowa takes top honors. High school students in Iowa take the top spot for highest average SAT score of 604 in 2009. However, a deeper look into the numbers reveals that only 3% of the potential students eligible to take the test did so. This is in contrast to Maine that has a participation rate of 90% and still turned in an respectable average of 463. Overall the result show that although the Midwest has higher average scores, the participation rate in the Northeast is consistently over 70%, maintaining their reputation as a region focused on education.

Week 11 - Google Earth

I chose this location for several reasons. One, it is located in an area that rates high on the wind chart. Second, it has sparce residential impact. Third, it is in an area that an existing nuclear power plant was built. I assumed that an indept analysis was conducted for this and that if it was good enough for them ...

Google Earth assignment

Module 10: Isarithmic Maps

This was a pretty straight forward exercise. Interpolation of contours is something I have done for some time in land surveying creating topography maps.