SWUG 2005 - Poster Competition
September 26-28, 2005

• Student Poster Contest

• Professional Poster Contest

• Registration and Submission Instructions

Contact: Brandon Plewe, Department of Geography, Brigham Young University, 801-422-4161, plewe@byu.edu.

Questions: posters@swuggis.org

The student competition will be awarded in two categories:

• Printed Map (including image maps)

• Research Presentation, including maps and explanatory text

Each category will be judged on the basis of visual quality and technical or scientific merit, although these factors may be weighted differently in each category (visual quality weighted higher for maps, technical/scientific merit weighted higher for research presentations).

The best entry in each category will be awarded $250, and two honorable mentions will be awarded $75. The judges may combine categories or reduce the number of prizes if fewer than three quality entries are received in any category.

Posters can be a product of the student’s coursework, research area, or personal work, and must have been completed after August 2004. The work must have been done while a student at an educational institution in one of the five SWUG states, but the submitter does not need to be a student nor live in a SWUG state at the time of the conference. Posters produced as a result of paid employment (including both internships and academic research assistantships) are not eligible for the student competition, but may be entered into the professional competition. A student may submit only one poster.
 

Professional posters will awarded in three categories:

• Printed Maps (including image maps)

• Interactive or Online Map/GIS service

• Professional or research presentation, including maps and explanatory text
   

Each category will be judged on the basis of visual quality and technical or scientific merit, although these factors may be weighted differently in each category (visual quality weighted higher for maps, technical/scientific merit weighted higher for presentations). Prizes and certificates will be awarded to a winner and two honorable mentions in each category. The judges may combine categories or reduce the number of prizes if fewer than three quality entries are received in any category.

Posters can be the result of any level of professional or academic work, and must have been completed after August 2004. Each author may submit only one poster, and must work in a SWUG-constituent state (UT, AZ, WY, CO, NM). Online services must be permanently available to the general public.
 

To be considered, participants must register posters by September 17th by sending an e-mail to the poster organizer (Brandon Plewe, plewe@byu.edu). The registration must include a title, name and institution of the author, and a 200-word abstract summarizing the purpose of the project, the software, techniques, and methods used, and the intended audience of the poster. The registration must also include a digital copy (in PDF, JPEG, or other common format), or an address where such can be obtained. The first 10 students registering a poster will be given free registration to the conference!

Maximum size for all posters is 60"x36" (either orientation). Because this year's competition is part of ESRI SWUG, all submissions should have been created using ESRI software.

The printed posters may be brought to the conference or mailed to the poster organizer. In either case, the poster must be received by the end of the first day of the conference to be considered in the competition. Unregistered posters may also be brought to the conference for public display, but are not eligible for the competition nor guaranteed display space. The submitted title and abstract will be displayed next to each poster.