GAW 2018 National Secondary School Poster Competition

 

BRIEF

The Department of Geography at the University of the West Indies is holding its first national poster competition in celebration of Geography Awareness Week (GAW), November 11-17, 2018. The competition is open to ALL Secondary School students in Trinidad and Tobago. This year our theme for GAW is “Climate Change Impacts”. Students are required to prepare a poster on ‘Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture and Food Security’ within Trinidad and Tobago.

RULES

• All posters MUST be prepared using the poster template form available from your class teacher. The poster template can also be found on https://geographyawareness.blog-spot.com/
• Posters must include a Title (placed at the top of the poster) and the Name of the Teacher and Students (placed at the bottom of the poster)
• Poster submissions are to be made through class Teachers ONLY
• ONE submission per class
• Posters must reference all research and images
• All images or photos used in the poster must be clear and of high quality, such as .jpg or .png format with a resolution of 5 megapixels (5MP) or greater. Therefore original im-ages are encouraged
• Posters must be saved as .ppt, .pptx or open-source equivalent
• All complete entries MUST be sent to geog.uwi@gmail.com by 12pm on Wednesday 31st October, 2018

PRIZES

• Contest winners will be notified through their School Principals
• The top five posters will be on display during the International Conference on Climate Change Impacts on Food and Nutrition Security at the Radisson Hotel, Port-of-Spain, No-vember 12-16, 2018
• The Teacher and students of the class placing First in the poster competition will be invited to attend the International Conference on Climate Change Impacts on Food and Nutrition Security at the Radisson Hotel, Port-of-Spain for one day during the week of November 12-16, 2018 (FREE of charge valued at $1000TT per person)
• The winning class will also receive additional prizes
• Winning posters may appear in promotional activities for all future Geography Awareness Week celebrations and be used by the UWI-STA Geography Department in perpetuity along with the winner’s names and composition of excerpts thereof

Follow our Social Media pages:

✓ FB        facebook.com/groups/uwista.geography/

✓ IG        uwistageography

✓ BLOG https://geographyawareness.blogspot.com

Like and share the poster competition advert on social media, tag your friends. Unsuitable entries will NOT be considered. Posters will be judged on their content, visual presentation, graphical display and overall quality.

The Department of Geography reserves the right to refuse to award prizes in the case where insuf-ficient entries, or entries of a substandard quality, have been submitted.

• All posters MUST be prepared using this poster template form

GAW 2018 National Secondary School Photo Competition

BRIEF

The Department's Seventh National Secondary School Photo Competition is now open to ALL students in ALL forms. Our Geography Awareness Week theme this year is 'Climate Change Impacts'. Students are required to capture images which evince climate change within Trinidad and Tobago. Do you think Climate Change is real? Are we seeing the impacts already? This is your chance to show us!

RULES

• Photographs must be taken anytime between September 26th and November 4th, 2018. All complete entries MUST be received by midnight on Sunday 4th November, 2018
• Each photo MUST be sent as a high quality .JPG or .PNG file in an attachment. To ensure eligibility for the contest all entries must have a resolution of 5 megapixels (5MP) or greater
• Multiple entries are allowed and must be sent to geog.uwi@gmail.com
• All photos must be taken by the contestant within the contest period in Trinidad and Tobago
• Contestants may not submit work that has previously been submitted for judgement

SUBMISSION

For a COMPLETE contest entry, each entry MUST be accompanied by an entry form with:

(1) The full name of the student who took the photo, the name of their teacher, and the name

      of their school

(2) The title of the photo

(3) The date and the location the photo was taken – All photos must be taken between September

      26th and November 4th, 2018 by the contestant – specify the exact date and the exact place

(4) A max 250 word explanation of the theme, “Climate Change Impacts” captured in your

      photo, and how it represents human or physical geography in Trinidad and Tobago.

Submissions should be sent to the Geography Awareness team at geog.uwi@gmail.com. Each student is allowed a maximum of two entries. Follow our Social Media pages:

✓ FB. facebook.com/groups/uwista.geography/

✓ IG uwistageography

✓ BLOG https://geographyawareness.blogspot.com

Like and share the photo competition post on social media, tag your friends. Incomplete entries will NOT be considered. Photos will be judged on their quality as well as their description. The Department of Geography reserves the right to refuse to award prizes in the case where insufficient entries, or entries of a substandard quality, have been submitted.

JUDGING

Photographs will be judged on the following criteria:

• Quality
• Meaning
• Graphics/Artistic Effects
• Written Description

PRIZES

Contest winners will be notified through their School Principals. Winners will be invited to the National Photo Competition Awards Ceremony at the UWI-STA Campus to receive prizes. Please refer to the Calendar of Events for further details.

1ST PRIZE:

• The First Prize Winner will receive a digital camera plus a package.

• The First prize photo may appear in promotional activities for all future Geography Awareness         Week events and may be used by The UWI-STA Geography Department in perpetuity along with the Winner’s name and their composition, or excerpts thereof.

• The First Prize Winner’s School will receive a framed photo of the winning entry to commemorate their participation in the UWI-STA Geography Awareness Week, 2018.

2ND PRIZE:

• The Second Prize Winner will receive $400TT plus a package.

• The Second prize photo may appear in promotional activities for all future Geography Awareness Week events and may be used by The UWI-STA Geography Department in perpetuity along with the Winner’s name and their composition, or excerpts thereof.

• The Second Prize Winner’s School will receive a framed photo of the winning entry to commemorate their participation in the UWI-STA Geography Awareness Week, 2018.

3RD PRIZE:

• The Third Prize Winner will receive $200TT plus a package.

• The Third prize photo may appear in promotional activities for all future Geography Awareness Week events and may be used by The UWI-STA Geography Department in perpetuity along with the Winner’s name and their composition, or excerpts thereof.

• The Third Prize Winner’s School will receive a framed photo of the winning entry to commemorate their participation in the UWI-STA Geography Awareness Week, 2018.

To complete your entry, email the Geography Awareness team at geog.uwi@gmail.com with your photo attached, along with the acknowledgement that all contest rules (Section 2) have been met. You will receive an automatic acknowledgement of your email.

Note: All photos may appear in promotional activities for all future Geography Awareness Week events and be used by the UWI-STA Geography Department in perpetuity along with the names of the students, teachers, schools, the full composition, or excerpts thereof.

Geography Awareness Week 2018

Each year the Department of Geography at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, joins the international community in celebrating Geography Awareness Week. This is an annual celebration of the important role of Geography as a discipline and in our lives. This year our theme is 'Climate Change Impacts', where we challenge students and teachers to investigate how climate change manifests on a local scale and to consider the environmental impacts of our actions. We invite you to join us on this wonderful journey once again, as we count down the days to celebrate this uniquely diverse discipline November 11th to 17th, 2018!

GAW2016: Day 1

 Southern Outreach Activities at Naparima Girls 

Form 3 Naparima Girls, ASJA Girls, Parvati Girls students all taking part in the Geography of the Pencil activity. Photo taken by Ms. Sayidda Ali

On Monday 14th November, 2016, an outreach team consisting of Dr. Junior Darsan, Ms. Jewelle Mapp, Ms. Sayyida Ali and Mr. Ryan Seemungal visited Naparima Girls College, San Fernando to host an event to engage Form 3 Geography Students. Participants included ASJA Girls College, Parvati Girls, San Fernando Central Secondary and the students from the hosting school, Naparima Girls College.  

Dr. Junior Darsan gave a brief introduction as to the nature of Geography as a discipline, its wide ranging impact and job availability stressing that there are hundreds of potential jobs in the region and wider world. He gave emphasis on understanding that pursuing Geography means thinking about like a global citizen as everything is connected. Dr. Darsan is a Coastal Geomorphologist, lecturer and experienced researcher at the Department of Geography.

Ms. Jewelle Mapp engaged the students through a video presentation of the "Geospatial Revolution: Episode 2" as well as an exercise called "The Geography of the Pencil." The students learned about the complexity involved in making a product, the interconnections of various countries and the need for raw materials together with labour in the production of pencils. The crowd was divided into groups, assigned a country's identity. They each made a short but creative presentation as to how they were going to negotiate with other countries to get the raw materials necessary to make a pencil. 

Ms. Sayyida Ali, a past student of the Naparima Girls College, also gave a short presentation on her experiences as a Geography student and postgraduate researcher. She spoke about her travels, community engagement and the potential impact of her research.

The event was well received by the students. The Department of Geography is happy to engage with the students of the school and will be doing more activities like this in the future! The Department is grateful to Naparima Girls College and all the schools that participated in helping to make the event a success!

Downloadable Paraphernalia... Coming Soon

Hey Geography Awareness Week has arrived! The Department will be releasing a social media package for download! Also, there will be additional downloadable content. Stay tuned!

National Secondary School Photo Contest 2016

BRIEF

The Department's Fifth National Photo Competition is now open for Geography and Environmental Science students in all Forms! The Geography Awareness Week theme this year is called "Making Connections" and as such requires students to take photos to that captures an issue related to the competition theme below. This is an excellent opportunity to share students' lived local geographies with a wider community and be recognized for documenting their world. 

COMPETITION THEME

Geography as the spatial discipline in which "everything connects."

For the first time ever, photo entries can be made using original photos with additional multimedia effects or artistic techniques to support the theme!

RULES

• Photos must be original and taken in Trinidad and Tobago
• Subjects can be people, landscapes or a combination.
• Permission must be granted for human subjects or identifying information (e.g. photo of a dwelling).
• Photos must be 5 MP (megapixels) or greater.
• Photos must be taken between Sept 19th and Nov 6th 2016.
• Students must email high quality .JPEGs, .PNGs or .GIF formats.
• Contestants may not submit work that was previously submitted.
• Entries must be sent to geog.uwi@gmail.com.
• Multiple entries are allowed.
• Teachers are encouraged to email on behalf of the students in their classes to ensure both quality and originality of the submissions received.
• Contest winners will be notified through their School Principals.
• Contest winners will be invited to the UWI-STA Campus to recieve their prizes on Nov 19th 2016.
• Winning Photos may appear in promotional activities for all future Geography Awareness Week event and be used by the UWI-STA Geography Department in perpetuity along with the Winner's name and composition or excerpts thereof. 
• DEADLINE: 30 OCT 2016. EXTENDED UNTIL NOV 6th

SUBMISSION FORMAT

To be considered eligible, please follow the format presented below. Incomplete entries will not be considered.

• Full Name of Student
• Name of Teacher
• Name of School
• Title of Photo
• Date & Location of Where Photo was taken
• A Max 200-word explanation of "Making Connections" theme captured in your photo(s) and how it relates to Geography.

JUDGING

Photos will be judged on the following criteria:

• Quality
• Meaning
• Graphics/Artistic Effects
• Written Description

PRIZES

• The winning photos will be framed and present to the winning student's schools.

1st Place

• A Digital Camera
• $200 Teacher's Gift Certificate to the UWI Bookshop

2nd Place

• Gift Hamper from the UWI-STA Geography Club
• $100 Student Gift Certificate to the UWI Bookshop
• $200 Teacher's Gift Certficate to the UWI Bookshop

3rd Place

• Gift Hamper from the UWI-STA Geography Club
• $50 Student Gift Certificate to the UWI Bookshop
• $200 Teacher's Gift Certificate to the UWI Bookshop

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Welcome

Hosted by UWI-STA Department of Geography

Welcome to the Official Blog spot for Geography Awareness Week 2016 hosted by the Department of Geography at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. The Department will be hosting numerous events and activities. This blog is meant to keep interested persons in the know!

Each year, the Department joins an international celebration of Geography. This year, the theme that was chosen was, "Making Connections." We create relationships with our environments and people through space and time. Join us on this journey as we count down the days to celebrate our diverse discipline. 

The Department of Geography, Faculty of Food & Agriculture at the University of the West Indies