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Meet the contest winners

To learn more about the winning stories, visit the ArcGIS StoryMaps blog. Visit the competition story to explore the work of all twenty finalists.  

What is the 2020 ArcGIS StoryMaps competition?

For the 2020 annual StoryMaps contest, Esri and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) hosted the 2020 ArcGIS StoryMaps Competition for the Sustainable Development Goals.

The United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all and ensure that no one is left behind. They address a multitude of global challenges, including poverty, hunger, inequality, and climate change.

Using ArcGIS StoryMaps, storytellers from 47 countries submitted location-based, data-driven stories that addressed one or more SDGs. Guest judges selected first-, second-, and third-place winners in a student track and a professional track.

Each winning story is featured on SDSN’s newly designed website, SDGs Today: The Global Hub for Real-Time SDG Data, which features timely data on sustainable development measures. First- and second-place winners will illustrate storytelling best practices as lessons in Esri’s ArcGIS Learn Hub.

Winners in the student track

Students from 74 schools, 22 countries, and 18 US states competed for top storyteller in the student track.

  • Group of young women with face masks on
    First place

    Hidden Realities

    By Melissa Kaslowski, Columbia University; Zeynep Abes, University of California Los Angeles; and Eda Kazancioglu, Emerson College in the US
  • Map with land in beige and the ocean in blue with several regions shaded in blue and red
    Second place

    iBanker Kendal Regency

    By Ainayya Rahma, Allessandro Aryo Setyaki, and Martin Reynaldi Simanjuntak, Universitas Negeri Semarang in Indonesia
  • Closeup of a hand in a glove holding a vial near a river
    Third place

    What you CAN’T see in the Tennessee River

    By Kellie Ward, University of Tennessee Knoxville in the US
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Winners in the professional track

Over 150 government agencies, nonprofits and NGOs, educational institutions, and private entities submitted entries in the professional track.

  • Dark colored digital map with regions highlighted in red, yellow, and blue
    First place

    Segregation is killing us

    By Zarith Pineda, Victoria Vuono, Cecilia Gonzalez-Rubio, Yi Zhang, Territorial Empathy in the US
  • Small group of men and women standing near a river and a forest
    Second place

    Dene Kʼéh Kusān

    By Corrine Porter, Dena Kayeh Institute in Canada
  • Four brown tents in an outdoor area
    Third place

    Keeping up with the Kuchis

    By Alcis in England
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