Welcome to our website that was designed for the final project of the Advanced Geographical Information Science course (GEOB370). The purpose of this final project is to take the GIS knowledge that we have accumulated from the course and apply it to a topic that interests us. In this case, we are interested about  how environmental education can be implemented in children's lives.

GEOB370 is a course that can be taken in the University of British Columbia. For more information on this course go to the course homepage

Our aim is to determine where to establish a summer day camp within the regions surrounding Chilliwack, BC that would help promote environmental education. The integration of environmental educationinto daycamp activities is important because it evolves a child's learning capacity. The daycamp would enable children to apply the knowledge that they have learned from textbooks to the environment through fun activities. In this way, children are most likely to retain most of the knowledge that they have learned.

To determine our location, we did three multi-criteria analysis and even developed a hiking route for our daycamp. Even with the multi-criteria analyses we were still left with several potential sites to put our daycamp. So from the remaining potential sites, we decided on a point near Harrison Lake because a daycamp near the lake would provide more activities for the children.

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