Education
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National Geographic Bee state winners
The state finals of the National Geographic Bee were completed last Friday, and each state winner will now travel to Washington, DC for the national finals. The winner will receive […]
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Maps and Graphics at UNEP/GRID-Arendal
Hugo at UNEP/GRID-Arendal was kind enough to share a press release on a project he is working with us. The focus of their center is to provide generally understandable representations […]
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Utah High School Student wins $100,000 scholarship
The winner of the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search is Shannon Babb of Highland, Utah, who won a $100,000 college scholarship for her project studying the impacts of humans and […]
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Outdoor Classroom Awards
Lowe’s, International Paper and National Geographic Explorer have teamed up to award nearly $80,000 in grants to 32 schools in 15 states to help construct outdoor learning environments for science […]
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SkillsUSA Announces New College Geospatial Competition
In case any of you aren’t on the ESRI Education email Newsleter, this is an item that of you may be interested in following. From the newsletter: “SkillsUSA has partnered […]
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Step-By-StepTutorial: Open Source Web GIS
mapz posted a link to an article titled “Web GIS in practice IV: publishing your health maps and connecting to remote WMS sources using the Open Source UMN MapServer and […]
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Education, Events, GIS_Software
GLIS Annual GIS competition for high schools
The Geographic and Land Information Society has announced their Annual GIS Competion for high schools, sponsored by ESRI. Basically, high schools submit projects to the competition by the deadline of […]
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Education, GIS_Software, Groups
UCGIS Draft Body of Knowledge
The University Consortium for Geographic Information Science has made a draft of its GI S&T Body of Knowledge (that’s Geographic Information Science and Technology, BTW) available for comment. This document […]
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Geography Departments Worldwide
This site offers a searchable list of over 1000 Geography departments from around the world. WVU is on it, is your school (or alma mater)? Geography Departments Worldwide: Homepage
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NASA’s ISS EarthKAM program
I just read an article about a teacher in Maine who has had her students participating in projects based on NASA’s ISS EarthKam project. EartKAM is Earth Knowledge Acquired by […]
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