The UCCS-based Colorado Geographic Alliance and the UCCS GeoClub will host GeoQuiz Night from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 15 at Clyde’s as part of national Geography Awareness Week Nov. 11-17.
GeoQuiz Night will offer prizes such as gift cards, maps from National Geographic, and other geography-themed items, and is intended for UCCS students, faculty and staff interested in learning more about intersections between geography and other social science disciplines, according to Josh Hendrickson, graduate assistant and Geography Awareness Week Coordinator for the Colorado Geographic Alliance.
Children of campus community members are also welcome to attend with their parents..
“Given the accelerating speed of communication and growing global interconnections, it is increasingly important that the citizens of the Earth become geographically literate,” Steve Jennings, associate professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, and co-coordinator of the Colorado Geographic Alliance, said. “Geography Awareness Week draws attention to geography and the role it plays in our everyday lives.”
Established by Presidential proclamation in 1987, Geography Awareness Week is an annual public awareness program organized by National Geographic Education Programs. This year’s theme, “Geography: Declare your Interdependence” is intended to show how local decisions have regional, national or global implications.
A bookmark contest for students in grades K-12 is also underway. For more information about the contest and GeoQuiz Night, visit www.uccs.edu/coga.
Geography Awareness Week 2012, is supported by National Geographic and the Geo-literacy Coalition, composed of CH2M HILL, Google, Esri and the National Geographic Society. For more information, visit http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/collections/geographyawarenessweek/?ar_a=1
Since 2008, Jennings and Rebecca Theobald, assistant professor adjoint, Geography and Environmental Studies, have coordinated the Colorado Geographic Alliance. As part of a national network of geographic alliances, COGA works to reinvigorate geography education in Colorado and to share ideas about infusing geography into K-12 curriculum.
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