Today, the Santa Barbara News-Press featured SYV EAST student Danny Mazza and his "wardriving" project. Danny wants people in the valley to keep their wireless internet connections safe from hackers by following a few tips he lists in William Etling's "Valley Living" article.
You can read the complete News-Press article online.


Image Copyright 2005 Rafael Maldonado/Santa Barbara News Press.

Today brought more developments in the Mission Aqueduct Project. Santa Ynez Valley EAST students Tim Manchester, Kenny Wilkins, Erik Glendinning, Greg Bridgeman, Krista Armenta, Breanna Schlaggs and Alyssa Massey have been searching for a lost aqueduct dam in the Alamo Pintado Creek ever since a member of the community sent in a forty-year old picture that featured a structure. Today, students believe they have located the missing dam. The students used Trimble GPS units to mark the location of the dam's remains. Additional research will be conducted before a conclusion is made. Tim, Breanna and Erik were part of the original sixteen member team that won the Governor's Historic Preservation Award in 2004.

(Left to right) Tim Manchester, Erik Glendinning and Kenny Wilkins examine an exposed dam in the creek.

Students are working on a number of projects to be showcased in April at the annual EAST Conference. Check out a few of these by visiting our current projects.

Santa Ynez Valley EAST is now an official featured site over at the Environmental and Spatial Technology section of the California Department of Education. SYV EAST is also listed in the Open Diectory Project. Thanks Mr. Hiuga, Ms. Hinkson, "gisedu" and all the other dmoz volunteer editors!

Today, Liam Keane launched a new SYV EAST News page. The new page is powered by Google's weblog service, Blogger. The new page allows for quicker, easier updates and can even add content using post via email. The revised page complies with the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Transitional Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) standards.
3/30 Edit: After some help from some users of SitePoint.com and WebDeveloper.com, we have made this page 508 Accessible. We plan to finish making all pages Section 508 Compliant shortly. At some point, we hope to make the entire site WCAG Compliant.