Sponsors

http://www.cito.com - Cito supports the International Geography Olympiad. Cito is one of the world's leading testing and assessment companies.

http://www.esri.com - ESRI is the key sponsor of the International Geography Olympiad website.

 

GIS in schools

The GIS Division of a city is asked by the fire chief to produce a map showing residential structures more than 300 feet from a fire hydrant and more than a mile from a fire station. This map is easy for the GIS team to produce since this data is stored in the computer and it just takes a few commands to produce a map for the chief showing these critical areas of the city

The capability of GIS to incorporate numerous data sets as mapped layers and to display these quickly and efficiently may help people to visualize relationships between and among spatial phenomena. Thus, GIS provides a means of integrating vast amounts of data and informationalizing it to allow students to understand and address significant contemporary problems such as urban conflicts, pollution, and the diffusion of diseases.

Imagine a world where young people are strong problem solving, geographical thinkers with solid 21st century career skills who actively contribute to the good of their local and global communities.

Striving for this ideal is an ESRI commitment. ESRI, founded in 1969, is the world leader in GIS (geographic information systems). GIS and geographical problem solving are being used every day by millions of persons in thousands of occupations to tackle social, economic, political, environmental, and technical issues in our communities and around the world (www.esri.com, www.esri.com/mapmuseum).



Since 1992, the ESRI Education Program has advanced GIS in schools (K-12 education), higher education, and informal education settings such as libraries, museums, and similar institutions. Through a mix of software, data, curricula, and learning opportunities and collaborations, the ESRI Education Program seeks to foster geographic and technological skill development, understanding, and application among youth people and the public (www.esri.com/schools, www.esri.com/highered, www.esri.com/libraries).

For more information, read this article.

http://www.esri.com

ESRI is the key sponsor of the International Geography Olympiad website.
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