{"id":1136742,"date":"2021-02-17T10:30:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T18:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=1136742"},"modified":"2021-02-17T10:56:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T18:56:20","slug":"meet-the-2020-storymaps-competition-winners","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/story-maps\/sharing-collaboration\/meet-the-2020-storymaps-competition-winners","title":{"rendered":"Meet the winners of the 2020 ArcGIS StoryMaps Competition"},"author":9422,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[37101,37511,430212],"tags":[398132,26031,706371,717111,141082],"industry":[],"product":[36611],"class_list":["post-1136742","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-sharing-collaboration","category-sustainable-development","tag-arcgis-storymaps","tag-contest","tag-storymaps","tag-sustainable-development","tag-un-sustainable-development-goals","product-story-maps"],"acf":{"short_description":"Meet the winners of the 2020 ArcGIS StoryMaps Competition for the UN Sustainable Development Goals hosted by Esri and SDSN.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>Through the 2020 ArcGIS StoryMaps competition, Esri and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unsdsn.org\/\">United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)<\/a> invited storytellers worldwide to solve global challenges through GIS and storytelling. <em>And you responded!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>By the numbers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We received <strong>300+<\/strong> competition entries from <strong>47<\/strong> countries in the student and professional tracks combined.<\/li>\n<li>Student submissions spanned <strong>74<\/strong> schools, <strong>22<\/strong> countries, and <strong>18 <\/strong>U.S. states.<\/li>\n<li><strong>150+<\/strong> organizations submitted stories to the professional track.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Which stories stood out above the rest?<\/em> Our 2020 Storytellers of the Year used innovative storytelling techniques, mapping best practices, and sound data to create solutions-oriented stories about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalgoals.org\/\">Sustainable Development Goals<\/a> (SDGs).<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"quote","author_name":"Alex Tait, National Geographic Society","author_profession_organization":"","image":false,"text":"The submissions were incredibly high quality and covered really important topics. I was very impressed both by the student and the professional categories, in the topics that were picked and the statistical and human stories that supported the SDGs."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":966481,"id":966481,"title":"2020-storymaps-competition-divider","filename":"2020-storymaps-competition-divider.png","filesize":476,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-storymaps-competition-divider.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/story-maps\/constituent-engagement\/jeffrey-sachs-discusses-the-critical-roles-of-gis-and-storytelling-in-solving-global-challenges\/2020-storymaps-competition-divider","alt":"Multicolor divider","author":"9232","description":"Multicolor divider\n","caption":"","name":"2020-storymaps-competition-divider","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":966461,"date":"2020-08-05 00:43:18","modified":"2020-08-05 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style=\"line-height: 115%\">As leaders in the sustainable development space, our four guest judges for the competition selected first-, second-, and third-place winners in student and professional tracks from <a href=\"https:\/\/arcg.is\/0GiGTz0\">the competition finalists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 115%\">Guest judges (shown below) included Jeffrey Sachs, Economist and President of SDSN; Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, UN SDG Advocate and Environmental Activist; Alex Tait, The Geographer at the National Geographic Society; and Dawn Wright, Chief Scientist at 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style=\"line-height: 115%\"><span style=\"color: #304e4e;background: white\">Each judge, with varied skill sets and experience, has spent years contributing to the science, policy, and educational efforts that support sustainable local and global communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meet their picks for the <a href=\"https:\/\/arcg.is\/1XvzW9\">2020 Storytellers of the Year<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"youtube","start_time":"0","end_time":"","youtube_video_url":"<iframe title=\"Announcing the 2020 Storytellers of the Year\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UJmdqjmR_Ms?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" 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stories in the student track<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":1141352,"id":1141352,"title":"PersonalizedCard-Esri-student-1st","filename":"PersonalizedCard-Esri-student-1st.jpg","filesize":210825,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/02\/PersonalizedCard-Esri-student-1st.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/story-maps\/sharing-collaboration\/meet-the-2020-storymaps-competition-winners\/personalizedcard-esri-student-1st","alt":"","author":"9422","description":"","caption":"View the Hidden Realities story.","name":"personalizedcard-esri-student-1st","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1136742,"date":"2021-02-17 01:45:35","modified":"2021-02-17 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the student track, the <a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/c51f1bdcf12240ae8cc5c3e541ed06bd\"><em>Hidden Realities<\/em><\/a> story took <strong>first prize<\/strong> for its compelling infographics and personal narratives about femicide in Turkey. This story showed skilled collaboration among three students: Melissa Kaslowski at Columbia University, Zeynep Abes at University of California Los Angeles, and Eda Kazancioglu at Emerson College.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arcg.is\/1SWqP5\"><em>iBanker Kendal Regency<\/em><\/a>, <strong>the second-place student winner<\/strong> by Universitas Negeri Semarang students in Indonesia, analyzed the impacts of weather and natural disaster on agricultural lands. Congratulations to authors Ainayya Rahma, Allessandro Aryo Setyaki, and Martin Reynaldi Simanjuntak.<\/p>\n<p>And rounding out our student winners, Kellie Ward at the University of Tennessee Knoxville won <strong>third place<\/strong> for <a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/0ae7ea467f5e4701a2968c11d94eb688\"><em>What you CAN\u2019T see in the Tennessee River<\/em><\/a>. The story examines pollution in the Tennessee River\u2014a water source for recreation, power generation, drinking water, and biodiversity\u2013through an engaging custom design.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":966481,"id":966481,"title":"2020-storymaps-competition-divider","filename":"2020-storymaps-competition-divider.png","filesize":476,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-storymaps-competition-divider.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/story-maps\/constituent-engagement\/jeffrey-sachs-discusses-the-critical-roles-of-gis-and-storytelling-in-solving-global-challenges\/2020-storymaps-competition-divider","alt":"Multicolor divider","author":"9232","description":"Multicolor divider\n","caption":"","name":"2020-storymaps-competition-divider","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":966461,"date":"2020-08-05 00:43:18","modified":"2020-08-05 00:53:11","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1600,"height":10,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-storymaps-competition-divider-213x10.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":10,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-storymaps-competition-divider.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":3,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-storymaps-competition-divider.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":5,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-storymaps-competition-divider.png","large-width":1600,"large-height":10,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-storymaps-competition-divider-1536x10.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":10,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-storymaps-competition-divider.png","2048x2048-width":1600,"2048x2048-height":10,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-storymaps-competition-divider-826x5.png","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":5,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-storymaps-competition-divider.png","wide_image-width":1600,"wide_image-height":10}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Winning stories in the professional track<\/h2>\n<p>Over 150 government agencies, nonprofits and NGOs, educational institutions, and private entities submitted competition entries in the professional track. Stories covered the 17 SDGs and much of the globe in support of the UN\u2019s Decade of Action to <em>leave no one behind<\/em>.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":1141742,"id":1141742,"title":"PersonalizedCard-Esri-professional-1st","filename":"PersonalizedCard-Esri-professional-1st.jpg","filesize":214523,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/02\/PersonalizedCard-Esri-professional-1st.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/story-maps\/sharing-collaboration\/meet-the-2020-storymaps-competition-winners\/personalizedcard-esri-professional-1st","alt":"","author":"9422","description":"","caption":"View the Segregation is killing us story.","name":"personalizedcard-esri-professional-1st","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1136742,"date":"2021-02-17 14:45:34","modified":"2021-02-17 14:46:28","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/02\/PersonalizedCard-Esri-professional-1st-213x200.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/02\/PersonalizedCard-Esri-professional-1st.jpg","medium-width":464,"medium-height":232,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/02\/PersonalizedCard-Esri-professional-1st.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":384,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/02\/PersonalizedCard-Esri-professional-1st.jpg","large-width":1920,"large-height":960,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/02\/PersonalizedCard-Esri-professional-1st-1536x768.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":768,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/02\/PersonalizedCard-Esri-professional-1st.jpg","2048x2048-width":2000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/02\/PersonalizedCard-Esri-professional-1st-826x413.jpg","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":413,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/02\/PersonalizedCard-Esri-professional-1st-1920x960.jpg","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":960}},"image_position":"left","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/arcg.is\/0KTDX4"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>Our <strong>first-place winner<\/strong> in the professional track, <a href=\"https:\/\/arcg.is\/0KTDX4\"><em>Segregation is killing us<\/em><\/a> by Territorial Empathy, received unanimous praise from the judges and StoryMaps team. 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