Burgettstown School District gets new "gig"

BURGETTSTOWN – Brazil has festivals just like Burgettstown.
It’s one of the many things that Burgettstown 11th-grader Melissa Truby has learned by being part of the GigaPan Global Connections Project.
“They’re more the same than I thought,” Melissa said.
The school partnered with Carnegie Mellon University to get four cameras and GigaPans, which are robots that take continuous pictures of a scene. Software is then used to create a big panoramic picture, which is shared with schools in other countries. After the yearlong study of culture and community is complete, Burgettstown will keep the equipment.
The technology was developed from the panoramic imaging technology that NASA uses for the Mars Exploration Rovers.
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