Children's Map Competition

The Barbara Petchenik Children's Map Competition is a bi-annual international mapping competition.

The theme of this year's competition is "Living in a Globalised World"
Entrants must be under the age of 16

Barbara Petchenik children’s world map competition

The Barbara Petchenik Award was created by the International Cartographic Association in 1993 as a memorial for Barbara Petchenik, a past Vice president of the ICA and cartographer who worked through her life with maps related to children. The aim of the contest is to promote the creative representation of the world in graphic form by children.

We would like to invite any school in the UK to submit entries for this competition.  Six winners will be selected by a set of judges and submitted to the ICA for entry into the International Competition.  Esri UK are delighted to be sponsoring this UK competition.

Rules

The ICA nations will collect maps based on the theme Living in a Globalised World, produced by children under 16 years of age. The judging will focus on three main criteria:

• a recognisable message
• cartographic content
• the quality of execution

In other words judges will be looking for

• a recognisable connection between the form, shape, and use of cartographic elements which creatively address the Competition's theme
• a recognisable image of all or a large portion of the world in which the shapes and relative locations of land masses and oceans are as correct as can reasonably be expected for the child's age and within the context of the "system of projection" used
• appropriate cartographic elements such as symbols, colours, names and labels, etc., which help address the Competition's theme: - clarity and legibility of the point, line and area symbols appropriate to the media of expression, whether on paper or other surfaces, whether drawn or made up of indigenous materials

Please note the judges’ decision is final.

UK entries will be judged by a panel of cartographic experts appointed by the British Cartographic Society (BCS).  The best six entries will each receive a prize sponsored by Esri UK and will be entered in the international competition.  Any participant agrees that his/her representation may be reproduced by the BCS in appropriate publications or scanned for publication on its website without consultation or copyright fees.

How to enter

Please send in your entries for attention of Angela Baker at the following address:
Childrens Map Competition

Esri (UK)

Millennium House

65 Walton Street

Aylesbury

HP21 7QG

This year, ESRI UK, the GA's strategic partners are co-ordinating the UK entries, which must be in by Monday 7th of March.

Visit the GA NING to download full instructions... (WORD DOCUMENT)