Esri’s new Global Content Challenge contest, engaging students all over the world, is proud to announce the winners! With the power of Esri content at their disposal, students told their own compelling scientific stories using the Esri Story Map Journal app. Entrants used their own geographic analyses, visualizations, predictive models, and more to explore a variety of scientific themes.
The contest was open from August to November and Esri was happy to receive ~550 registrations from students in nearly 60 countries, with 70 actual submissions. A distinguished international panel of judges chose projects that best exemplified the spirit of the contest: unleashing the power of Esri’s Living Atlas of the World content.
Winners were judged in the three categories of Land, Ocean, and Population:
LAND
- First place ($10,000): Sara Lubkin, N. Virginia Community College, USA, What Can Beetles Tell Us About Past Climates?
- Second place ($5,000): Karl Chastko, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, Food, Water and 7 Billion People: Improving Water Efficiency in Agriculture
- Third place ($2,000): Kayla Wong, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, Soil Carbon Sequestration Potential Based on Soil Properties
- Honorable Mention (Esri swag): Danielle Derrick, Carleton University, Canada, A Race for Survival: The Future of Tiger Conservation
OCEAN
- First place ($10,000): Alicea Zelesny, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, Antarctica – The Southerly Extreme
- Second place ($5,000): Julia Portmann, Washington College, Maryland, USA, Attack of the Blobs
- Third place ($2,000): Kevin Yang, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, Climate Change in Earth’s Polar Regions
- Honorable Mention (Esri swag): Maggi Klug, University of Alabama-Huntsville, USA, Devastating Effects of Climate Change on Coastal Florida
POPULATION
- First place ($10,000): Claudia Caceres, Claremont Graduate University, California, USA, Analyzing the Relationship between Climate Change and Food Insecurity in Developing Countries
- Second place ($5,000): Michael Kirchin, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, The American People
- Third place ($2,000): Spencer Elford, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, Concrete Jungle: Urban Expansion and the Rise of the Megacity
- Honorable Mention (Esri swag): Kathryn Kulbicki, George Mason University, Virginia, USA, Child Welfare in the News August 1, 2016 – October 31, 2016
- Honorable Mention (Esri swag): Christopher Koido-Bunt, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, Volcanic Hazard Risk in East and South East Asia
We will be featuring these Story Map Journal apps at the 2017 Esri Federal GIS Conference, the 2017 Esri Education GIS Conference and other events, as well as in various social media outlets.
Congratulations, and a huge thanks to all who participated. We hope to see you again next year!
Learn more about the Global Content Challenge today at esri.com/content-challenge.
