Student submission and permission forms can be requested from and must be returned to: agocompetitionco@coloradocollege
Teams may submit their EARLY entries to the Colorado leadership group by Friday, March 18, 2022. State judges will review and comment (but not score) these projects.
The deadline for FINAL entries to the Colorado contest is Wednesday, May 11, 2022, at 6:00 pm Mountain Time.
1. Entries should be analytical in nature, map-centric rather than photo-centric.
2. Entries must be visible without requiring a login. Entries engaging “premium data” (login required, such as Living Atlas) must set the display to permit access without needing a login. See helpful note.
3. Entries must be “original work by students,” but may use data generated by outside persons or institutions, within guidelines of “fair use.” (Students are encouraged to use appropriate professionally generated data, but the integration, treatment, and presentation must be original.)
4. Entries must provide to the school/state/Esri two links in “short URL” format, e.g. “http://arcg.is/1A2b3xyz”
1. One link goes to the “display” page (the app or story map) 2. One link goes to the “item details” page (the metadata page for the app or story map) 3. Users can create a short URL in “arcg.is” format at http://bitly.com. Esri has a relationship with bitly so that any URL string formatted as “[anything].arcgis.com/[anything]” will be turned into a short URL formatted as “arcg.is/[shortstuff]”.
5. The national competition will use this rubric (100 points):
1. (5) topic is clearly identified, meets [nation’s/state’s] criteria, focuses on content within state borders
2. (10) overall presentation within the app or story map is effective in informing about topic
3. (20) cartography is effective — the composition, visualization, and interplay of layers (display scale, transparency, classification, symbolization, popups, charts,
tables, labels, filtering, legend appearance) facilitates the viewer’s grasp of individual elements of the topic and story
4. (20) data used is appropriate — engages an adequate volume and array of clearly significant elements, does not exclude clearly significant elements, does not include irrelevant elements; of the 20 “total data points possible,” 5 are reserved for rewarding the creation, documentation, and inclusion of one’s own data [0=none, 1=little/weak, 2=some/modest, 3=satisfactory, 4=much/good, 5=most/excellent] (so an otherwise ideal project that contained no user-generated data could receive at most 15 points) 5. (20) geographic analysis (classification, filtering, geoanalysis) is evident, appropriate, and effective; the “map product” is not “simply uniform dots/lines/areas on a map” nor “simply pictures” 6. (25) documentation in the item details page is clear and complete; all non-original contents (including images) in the presentation/ web app/ story map are appropriately referenced and/or linked so their sources are clear, and original contents are described and/or linked; documentation identifies processes used to analyze the content, plus any persons who assisted in project (including specifying if no one did)
