Geospatial Olympics

What do you get when you combine a game of geography and GIS based Jeopardy, free pizza, a bunch of college students and awesome prizes? The annual Metro State College Geospatial Olypmics of course!

Yesterday was a blast at the Tivoli Center on the Auraria Campus in Denver, Colorado.

 

 

 

It’s an event hosted by the Metro State GIS Club for GIS/Geography students to show off their know-how as well as a party as the academic year winds down.

The jeporady teams were: The Bobcats, Team “Iembracethat!” and Team “I WIN!” .I was recruited to be the buzzer girl (hit the buzzer when we had the answer i.e. be the first every-time) for team “I WIN!” and how could we lose with a name like that?  

Well it was an entertaining game as Team “Iembracethat!” took the lead early and held on to it. Team “I WIN!” had an unfortunate time of answering at least one question per team member wrong (go ahead, blame it on the trigger finger reflexes of the buzzer girl) and at half time had half the points of the leaders. Personally, I think team “I WIN!” was saving the best for last…

And it worked for us! In the final bonus round where teams gambled away points with their final answer, we pulled ahead for the WIN

But everyone is a winner at the Spatial Olympics as the SWAG is plentiful, thanks to donations from mapping companies like USGS, GITA and Cloudmade.

There was also an Oopsie Art competition. Who knew mistakes could be so cool! The Oopsie Art competition is based on maps and renders that go all wrong and end up a work of art. All the artwork was spectacular and I am encouraging a bigger submission for next year! I would totally hang some of the artwork up on my walls

Until the next mapping adventure– 

Happy Mapping!

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