What is the International Geography Olympiad?
Thousands of students all over the world participate enthusiastically in National Geography Olympiads or competitions. The best of them compete in the International Geography Olympiad (iGeo). iGeo is a competition for the best 16 to 19 year old geography students from National Geography Olympiads. It is organised every other year. The competition consists of three parts: a written test, a multimedia test and a substantial field work exercise.
Aims of the International Geography Olympiad
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To promote geography.
- To stimulate understanding between young people.
- To stimulate a higher quality of school geography worldwide.
What is geography?
Geography turns out to be much more significant than many of us realize. It is much more than knowing facts and figures. Geography is about spatial patterns and processes. It is about frontiers, centers and peripheries, about tourists, terrorists and refugees, about trade of food, clothes, drugs and digital data, about population growth, El Nino, tsunamis and earthquakes. It is the fascinating story of an ever-changing world. Without geography you get lost.
Geography and GIS
Modern geographers use Geographical Information Systems (GIS). The capability of GIS to incorporate numerous data sets as mapped layers and to display these quickly and efficiently may help people to visualize relationships between and among spatial phenomena. It has the added ability to simultaneously analyze multiple layers of spatial information. Thus, GIS provides a means of integrating vast amounts of data and informationalizing it (transforming metrics to meaningful relationships) to allow students to understand and address significant contemporary problems such as urban conflicts, pollution, and the diffusion of diseases.
2010 NIGERIAN GEO-CHALLENGE
The Nigerian representative at the 2010 IGEO in Taiwan will be selected from the National Finals scheduled for March 23 - 26, 2010. The Theme of this years event will be "GIS in Nigerian Schools.
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