Esri Ireland announced the launch of ArcGIS for Schools, making €500 million worth of digital mapping software available to every primary and secondary school in the country. More than 900,000 students in almost 4,000 schools* will have free access to Esri’s digital mapping platform, ‘ArcGIS Online’.
The platform allows students to collect, analyse and visualise data on a wide range of topics. As well as teaching the skills and techniques required for working with GIS, the application enables new ways to study climate change, design cities and towns, explore demographics, understand history, predict future scenarios, and perform many other cross-disciplinary activities.
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