Geography Awareness Week 2022 Art Contest
Geography Awareness Week takes place November 14th - 19th, 2022.
This year’s theme is
A World of Possibilities: Celebrate Career Paths in Geography.
All Pre-K - 12 public school students in Oklahoma are invited to participate.
The impressive array of career choices might be one of the geography discipline’s best-kept secrets. This year, the American Association of Geographers and OKAGE aim to change that. During the 35th annual Geography Awareness Week, we’re showcasing the work of geographers in strikingly diverse areas, from agriculture and food security to tracking illegal mining; from foregrounding the geographies of health to the work of correlating cancer and air quality and applying Geographic Information Systems to patterns of substance abuse; from assuring the integrity of population counts to safeguarding wildlife ecologies; from advising on climate resilience to protecting fair voting maps. For the 2022 Art contest, students should consider their dream career path and how they might solve a real-world issue they are passionate about as a professional in their selected field. Submissions may convey any aspect of students’ selected profession and illustrate how they will work to improve upon their selected issue. Entries should show the local, state, national, or worldwide impact of their chosen issue – either presently or what they hope to achieve in the future.
Below please find the forms for online and mailed submissions.
Get Inspired Here
Click or tap the image above to visit the Powerful Geography Website. The job summaries show how geography is embedded in a vast array of jobs delineated by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. We hope that you can refer to these during a geography, science, or social studies lesson to show your students how geography is so important in our everyday lives and that they too can become geographers no matter what their aspirations may be. The Powerful Geography resources have been developed by the Gilbert M. Grosvenor Center for Geographic Education.