IndianaMap Poster Competition
College and University Students
The annual GIS Poster Contest provides an excellent forum for geography students to
present their work to the entire Indiana GIS community.
Posters will be displayed during the 2009 Indiana GIS Conference, and
pictures of the winning posters will appear prominently in the IGIC Newsletter. It could
open the door to future job opportunities or even cash rewards!
PRIZES!!!
First Place: $250
Second Place: $150
Third Place: $100
All current undergraduate and graduate students from Indiana universities are eligible to join
the poster competition. Students are invited to submit
illustrations of how GIS is used.
The dimensions of the poster should be no larger than 4 x 5 feet. It should
contain a title, your name and affiliation, an introduction, methods, results and conclusion.
Submitting an Entry
Posters must be delivered to the conference registration desk at the Bloomington Convention Center between 8:00 and
10:00 am on February 18th, 2009
Send an email to Paul Irwin
irwinp@indiana.edu by
January 15, 2009
if you would like to register
your poster for competition at the conference. Provide the following in your email: 1.) Poster Title, 2.) University and department, and
3.) Contact Information (Name, address, city, state, zip, phone and email)
Judging Criteria
Submissions will be judged by a panel according to the following criteria:
- Introduction and Methodology (30% of score)
- Statement of Objectives
- Relation to Previous Research
- Research Design
- Results (30% of score)
- Substance of Findings
- Relation of Findings to Objectives
- Conclusions
- Design (40% of score)