{"id":170121,"date":"2017-08-08T12:37:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T16:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noaacoastsurvey.wordpress.com\/?p=170121"},"modified":"2017-08-08T12:37:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T16:37:49","slug":"noaa-participates-in-the-boy-scouts-of-america-national-jamboree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/noaa-participates-in-the-boy-scouts-of-america-national-jamboree\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA participates in the Boy Scouts of America National Jamboree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) invited NOAA to participate in a joint task force at the Boy Scouts of America National Jamboree. Volunteer representatives from USCG active and reserve, USCG Auxiliary, USCG civilian workforce, and NOAA Corps created a large-scale exhibit\u00a0to inform young men, young women, and adult leaders about the services that USCG and NOAA provide to the nation.<!--more--><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_170132\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170132\" style=\"width: 4898px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-170132\" src=\"https:\/\/noaacoastsurvey.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/img_1378.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1378\" width=\"4898\" height=\"3265\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-170132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial view of the USCG\/NOAA joint exhibit at the Boys Scouts of America National Jamboree.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nOffice of Coast Survey&#8217;s Lt. Matt Forney and National Marine Fisheries Service&#8217;s Lt. Cmdr. Chris Skapin represented NOAA Corps, and Cmdr. Ed Martin (NOAA ret.) former Office of Coast Survey Customer Affairs Branch chief, represented the USCG Auxillary.\u00a0The discussions with visiting scouts focused fisheries management and enforcement; nautical charting, navigation, and buoy deployment; and oil spill response and clean-up.\u00a0 Coast Survey provided their augmented reality sandbox to provide the scouts with an interactive experience while learning the basics of bathymetric surveying.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_170138\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170138\" style=\"width: 4898px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-170138\" src=\"https:\/\/noaacoastsurvey.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/img_0912.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0912\" width=\"4898\" height=\"3265\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-170138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteer Lt. Matt Forney explains bathymetric surveying with the aid of Coast Survey&#8217;s augmented reality sandbox to boy scouts visiting the USCG\/NOAA exhibit.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe joint task force reached approximately 24,000 scouts with approximately 8,000 specifically coming to see the USCG\/NOAA joint exhibit. With the jamboree only occuring every 4 years, it was a great opportunity to highlight the collaborative missions of the USCG Guard and NOAA. Overall, the jamboree was attended by more than 30,000 scouts, leaders, and staff, with 59 countries represented.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_170140\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170140\" style=\"width: 4898px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-170140\" src=\"https:\/\/noaacoastsurvey.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/img_2147.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2147\" width=\"4898\" height=\"3265\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-170140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteer Cmdr. Ed Martin (NOAA ret.) gives visiting boys scouts a quick tutorial on how the\u00a0augmented reality sandbox works.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) invited NOAA to participate in a joint task force at the Boy Scouts of America National Jamboree. Volunteer representatives from USCG active and reserve, USCG Auxiliary, USCG civilian workforce, and NOAA Corps created a large-scale exhibit\u00a0to inform young men, young women, and adult leaders about the services that USCG and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/noaa-participates-in-the-boy-scouts-of-america-national-jamboree\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NOAA participates in the Boy Scouts of America National Jamboree&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nautical-charts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}