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SU: My name is Su Coy.

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I'm 40 years old, and
I go to Palomar College

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in San Marcos, California.

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INSTRUCTOR 1: Su, see if you
can figure out something

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like the shelter capacity of
San Diego County using GIS.

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SU: OK.

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My mom thought that the
E was silent so you know,

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you didn't need it, so
that was pretty cool.

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This is a problem already.

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I'm an explorer, you know?

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So I like to go do things.

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INSTRUCTOR 1: I don't even know--

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SU: It's going to be
in your power settings.

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I'm constantly trying
to improve the Earth.

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I think a lot about safety.

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I study GIS.

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GIS is geographical information
systems, and to the layman,

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let's just make it easy.

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If you ever use Google
Maps, that's GIS.

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I got an A.

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OK, here comes the
honesty on this.

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I was very lost for
a long time, OK?

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I had no direction and
I never really thought

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anything about education.

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I ended up actually
out on the streets.

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I dabbled into things
I shouldn't have,

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and that is the turning
point of my life.

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I did not want to die and I
knew that education would get me

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to where I need to go.

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I got my high school
diploma and decided

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to come to the community
college to get an education.

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INSTRUCTOR 2: GIS has
now become this thing.

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It's prolific across
society, and I

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think that's where
we're headed with GIS.

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It's just going to be so
integrated with everything

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else in society.

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It's going to be a given.

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People may not even know
the words GIS and what

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it stands for or
anything, but they'll

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be using it because it'll
be just part of their life.

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SU: You have at
your hands the ability

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to make anything from
your favorite hiking

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trail to doing something
on a larger scale

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as I have done when we had
the Eagle Fire here last year.

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NEWSCASTER: The eagle
fire-- a massive brushfire

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still burning in
the East County.

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SU: The Eagle Fire was
a pretty dangerous situation

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and it was encroaching onto
one of the Indian reservations.

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WOMAN: Hey, Su, come on.

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SU: Hi, how are you?

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WOMAN: Nice to see you.

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SU: Nice to see you too.

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WOMAN: Let's go look in the back.

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SU: Through
the ATE program, I

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was able to intern
with the Red Cross,

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and they needed to have
a shapefile for all

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of their emergency supply
locations across two counties.

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They're going to have some
problems of the fires coming

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this way.

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This is going to close off.

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We're pushing everybody.

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And they needed to
know the best routes

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where our shelters can be,
where the fire's moving,

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and if it's going to
encroach on the reservations.

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What I do take away from
it is the satisfaction

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in knowing that I
have helped protect

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the lives of many people,
including the firefighters.

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RED CROSS INSTRUCTOR: It's great to 
have your students, who are getting

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this technical training that can
benefit the projects that we're

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trying to get done,
to have them come in,

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they know what they're doing,
they get the project done,

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and we've got great data to use.

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INSTRUCTOR 2: What this has
done has just allowed such

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a nice broad connection
across the whole community.

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So that integrates the college
with the local community

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and really has done a great
deal to kind of connect us

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all together.

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SU: I have had the
benefits of seeing what

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the ATE program can do for me.

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Can you tell me
a little bit more

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about the fundamentals of it.

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Where does the funding
come from and such?

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INSTRUCTOR 1: Oh, sure.

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ATE stands for Advanced
Technological Education

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and it's a program that's
funded by the National Science

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Foundation.

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And so in the ATE grant that
was awarded to Palomar College,

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they aimed to advanced
geospatial technologies

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in our community.

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SU: As a student now, I
have a 3.7 GPA in college.

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My major influence is my mother.

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She's a survivor.

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She taught me how to become
something that is worthwhile.

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This is my Advanced
Technological Education Student

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Award for Excellence.

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This may just be
a paper to most.

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But to me-- pardon me--

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to me, this just
tells me that if I

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keep going that I
will be someone,

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and I will be an
important part of society,

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and I make a difference.

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And that is important.

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So there's this.

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For anybody out there, if you
don't know where you're going

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or you feel like you're
lost or you feel less than,

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or you don't know how to start,
what you need to do is actually

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pick up the phone and call
your local community college.

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Believe me, people
are willing to help.

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I am standing here telling
you that it can be done.

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Anybody who has a dream,
no matter what age,

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it's attainable.

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