|
|
|
Young Geographer of the Year Competition
The competition is run by Geographical, the wonderful geography magazine, and this year the prizes are really quite superb, including a month-long expedition to the Himalaya, mountain bikes and a selection of books for schools.
The competition is in its eighth year and has proved to be popular with schools and students throughout the UK . This year's theme looks particularly exciting because your entry must involve you getting out into the real world and making a geographical investigation. So it's not just reading books in the library and writing long and boring essays!
Entry is open to any geographer, under the age of 19, who attends a school or sixth form college in the UK. So, if you are 18 or younger and love geography, you should read on...
"We want you to carry out a project that involves you exploring the world around you. The project must be completed somewhere in the UK, and must involve you getting out into the real world and making a geographical investigation – it could be a survey of your local streets or a study of a stretch of coastline. We want you to bring geography alive and show how it helps us to understand the world in which we live.
Your entry can take whatever form you think is most appropriate – be it a written report, a short video film, a photographic essay, an annotated map, an audio file or a mix of all of these. The important thing is that you get out of the classroom, away from your computer screen and into the outside world. "
Categories
Senior Geographer (16–18 years) Media limits: 1,500 words, five minutes of video/audio, A3 paper and the equivalent for other media.
Young Geographer (13–15 years) Media limits: 800 words, three minutes of video/audio, A3 paper and the equivalent for other media.
Junior Geographer (12 and under) Media limits: a length suitable for the age group.
For more information, entry forms and details of the prizes on offer, visit Geographical .
 |
 |
