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High school students help create a research tool for Myrtle Beach's Ocean Woods Cemetery

Three students from the Academy for the Arts, Science and Technology made several trips to Ocean Woods Cemetery to create a new app that shows gravesites and who’s buried where. It’s called the Ocean Woods Cemetery Viewer… https://comb.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html…. Users have the option to click on one of the gravesites and see expanded information or to search for a d...eceased person’s name, birth date or death date. Each point displayed on the map contains information and a photo of the grave site.

The app is a work in progress. It began as an internship for a Senior Mastery project, and the goal is to continue building it in phases with each Academy Arts, Sciences and Technology senior class. The project is a partnership between the school and the City of Myrtle Beach to allow students to apply in-class lessons to real-world situations.

Lisa Holzberger, GIS Coordinator with the City of Myrtle Beach, worked with the scholars to create the app. The students were under the academic leadership of Blake Vaught, Information Technology Instructor.

Ocean Woods Cemetery, 2504 South Kings Highway, is owned and maintained by the City of Myrtle Beach. Cemetery Manager Ricky West was the navigator for the students during the project, guiding them through the cemetery’s more than 7,000 graves dating back to the late 1800s.