GeographyAwareness

• February 19, 2010Events, general, GeographyAwareness

  GPS Adventures at the Maryland Science Center

  Dan at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore emailed to let us know that GPS Adventures, a traveling exhibit all about GPS and geocaching, will be opening tomorrow, February 20th […]

• December 6, 2009general, GeographyAwareness

  Geographic Wills

  According to the BBC, Eric Gordon Douglas from Edinburgh left nearly £11,000 for 20 towns around the world that share his surname. The Herald Scotland states that no one knows […]

• November 18, 2009general, GeographyAwareness

  Can US Senators Draw Their Own State?

  National Geographic has a really cool geography awareness week challenge for US Senators – can you draw your home state and give three points of interest within it?  Thus far, […]

• November 17, 2009Environmental, general, Physical Geography

  Ice Age Took 6 Months to Form?

  Who would have thought a Dennis Quaid movie could be right? (well, except for Enemy Mine, which I maintain is simply to awesome to not come true some day)  Geology […]

• November 16, 2009Contest, general, GeographyAwareness

  GAW Contest Day 2

  Day two of Geography Awareness Week has arrived with another chance to win a copy of Field Assets for iPhone or a piece of VerySpatial SWAG from our shelf. Please […]

• November 12, 2009avsp, general, GeographyAwareness

  GAW Contest

  The folks over at LBS Wireless sent us a few licenses for their Field Assets iPhone app to give away. We are taking advantage of the timeliness to roll it […]

• November 10, 2009Education, general, GeographyAwareness

  The Geospatial Semester – a great program for high school students in Virginia through JMU

  James Madison University has a great new partnership with high school in Virginia for a program called The Geospatial Semester . From the Geospatial Semester webpage: “The Geospatial Semester is […]

• November 2, 2009Education, Events, general, GeographyAwareness

  First ever USA Science and Engineering Festival – Fall 2010!

  This is so cool – Next fall, from October 10-24th, the Inaugural USA Science & Engineering Festival, the US’s first national science festival, will be held in the Washington, DC […]

• October 22, 2009Events, general, GeographyAwareness

  Geography Awareness Week Blog-a-thon at My Wonderful World

  Each year, we try to do daily Geography Awareness Week posts to highlight topics related to Geography and each year’s theme, and other blogs also offer great content to celebrate. […]

• October 8, 2009general, GeographyAwareness

  New Jersey is to Clerks as Idaho is to….

  I was looking up some old movies online and found tons of fun information on movies and their associated landmarks or states. Rotten Tomatoes has a fun “50 Movies for […]