GIS Education Weekly: Boundless to Support USGIF Accredited GEOINT Programs

Competitions

Maps from the Overall Skills
Competition Winner's Poster

GeoTech Center: Winners of 2018 Geospatial Skills Competition - I didn't find a press release but did find this page noting the four winners and downloadable jpgs of their posters.

Esri Canada: Skills Canada GIS 2018 competition wrap up - Four teams of two tackled the challenge: analyzing the services and amenities available to seniors living in Brampton who do not drive.

GIS Education Weekly: GeoLeaders, GeoAcademy, Web GIS

Resources

University of Kentucky New Maps Plus: U.S. Wildfires: An analysis of wildfire activity as reported by the national Fire Program Analysis (FPA) system

The villas of Marabe Al Dhafra in
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates:
one of the 13 images from Unworthy

Upworthy: The good, the bad, and the ugly of humans' impact on the Earth, in 13 aerial photos.

Inverse: You Can Play 'Pokémon Go' Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

GIS Education Weekly: Boundless Details Program, Ashcloud Apocalypse Results, ISIS Geography Assignment

Ashcloud Apocalypse Global Risk Results Map

Not too much data in Massachusetts.

Esri UK and others put together a GIS Day activity based on a volcano eruption. The sign up page explains it's "A hazard risk mapping activity for Geographers." Here's the AGOL map used to drive the activity. The final map created by participants is the Ashcloud Apocalypse Risk Map.

A tweet from Michael Gould (@0mgould) reports:

 >9000 entries and 6 million map views in 1 week!

Indiana State and PrecisionHawk Partner on Growing UAS Industry and Education

Indiana State University and Raleigh, N.C.-based PrecisionHawk have signed a research and development partnership that aims to advance the unmanned aerial systems industry from multidisciplinary perspectives. The university-business collaboration will focus on safety, education, training and algorithm development for PrecisionHawk's DataMapper aerial data software.

These Students Don't Need Any Help Finding a GIS Project

I see too many students (college and grad) asking for help finding a topic for their GIS projects. Two students at University of Pittsburgh at Bradford didn't have any trouble. They fish and hunt, so they gathered data about ice fishing holes and deer sightings. Now the hope is the data and maps are good enough to let one of the student's grandfathers bag a deer when he visits!