GIS Day 2015 - Celebrating everything Geospatial!

The 4th Annual GIS Day celebration was filled with GIS students, professionals, raffle prizes, presentations, interactive displays, and fun times!  Thank you to Madeline Steele & Christina Friedle for continuing to organize the event.  A special thanks to Matthew Hampton, Molly Vogt, Justin Houk, and Craig Beebe for your assistance with planning and brainstorming.  Thank you Allison Jones for being our GeoTrivia MC for the 4th year in a row.  And lastly, thank you Al Mowbray for helping to transport, set-up, and demonstrate the topographic sandbox.

Presentations by Gina Clemmer, Michael Schindel, and Ben Friedle included lots of laughs and topics such as: Mary Lee, Internet famous Shark; Mapping porn around the holidays; Ben Carson's America;  Inspiration for emerging GIS professionals; and Innovative mapping applications.  Cy Smith was unable to make the event, but shared a video (https://vimeo.com/112652622) about the Arbor School in Tualatin that uses Geography as the underlying foundation for teaching all subject.  

Also present, an Augmented Reality Topographic Sandbox, built by Matthew Hampton of Metro.  Quite an attractive site!  Matthew built it as part of an event hosted earlier in the day at Metro for High School students, to demonstrate the 'coolness' of everything geospatial, as well as some geographic concepts like watersheds and topography.  

Thank you to all our sponsors for making this event possible!  Portland Community College - Geography, Outlier, i-Ten Associates, ASPRS - PSU Student Chapter, URISA - Young Professionals, SCGIS, & The Nature Conservancy - Oregon.