Illinois Middle & High School Story Map Competition 2024
The results are in!
Congratulations to the Illinois State winner from Jacksonville High School for submitting the outstanding Story Map entry, “Opioid Overdoses Morgan County, Illinois”.
You can see the full results of the 2024 ArcGIS Online Story Map National Competition here at https://esriurl.com/agoschoolcomp [esriurl.com]. Scroll down and check out the interactive map and table. Most of all, check out the impressive winning entries at high school and middle school, and their nice 3-minute videos. A blog announcing the results and describing briefly the challenge is at https://esriurl.com/funwithgis345 [esriurl.com].
East, west, north, south, rural, urban or suburban, all Illinois students are invited to tell their hometown stories in the Annual Illinois Story Map Competition for Grades 4 through 12. Students explore their hometown or neighborhood to discover unique characteristics and/or to study a local problem or issue they would like to solve. Compete with others for a chance to win a prize!
Competition organizers:
Dean Butzow & Rey de Castro
For more information email: dean.butzow@llcc.edu
Thank you sponsors!
Esri K12 Education || Illinois Geographic Alliance || Lincoln Land Community College || The Geographic Society of Chicago
Thanks to everyone at the 2024 Central Illinois STEM Fair who stopped by the Lincoln Land Community College exhibit and who took the "Fun Facts about Illinois Towns" survey! To see the results of the survey click on the buttons below. The green button is a link to an ArcGIS Online Story Map. The yellow button is a link to an ArcGIS Online Web Map. Notice the different ways that the information from the Fun Fact survey may be presented.
National Geographic MapMaker is an interactive online mapping platform featuring curated maps for teaching and learning. MapMaker is free, doesn’t require a login and works on lightweight devices such as tablets and laptops.
