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           THE 1995 BARBARA PETCHENIK CHILDREN'S MAP COMPETITION
                                Report By
                          Alberta Auringer Wood
                              Map Librarian
                    Memorial University of Newfoundland
                     St. John's, Newfoundland, CANADA
 
The Barbara Petchenik Children's Map Competition was established
in 1993 as a memorial to Barbara Bartz Petchenik, Vice President
of the International Cartographic Association (ICA), who died in
1992.  It relates to one of her areas of interest:  maps for
children.  The competition was open to children under 16 years
old.  This year entries were submitted by 20 nations:  Australia,
Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Greece,
Hungary, Israel, Poland, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Republic of
South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United
States of America, and Vietnam.
 
The theme of the competition was "A World Map".  The ten winners
and the rest of the 120 finalists will be submitted to UNICEF for
consideration as part of a wall sheet for use as an educational
and display tool.  Many of the maps (20 out of 70) from the 1993
competition were included on a UN CD-ROM called "My City" which
was exhibited at the World Summit on Social Development in
Copenhagen in March 1995 and more recently at the Women's Summit
in Beijing in September 1995.  The UN Under-Secretary-General
Gillian Martin Sorenson has written that "the United Nations
welcomes the map competition and its important goal of making
young people more knowledgeable about and sensitive to
cartography".  In addition, all of the finalists from this
competition and the one in 1993 are being preserved in the
permanent collection of the Carleton University Map Library as
the result of a proposal from Barbara Farrell, the map librarian.
It is planned to have selected images available on the World Wide
Web as part of the forthcoming ICA home pages.  Plans are being
considered to exhibit the winners at the International
Geographical Union conference  in the Hague in 1996.
 
It was an honour to have been asked to chair the committee of
judges for this competition in memory of Barbara Bartz Petchenik.
The other judges were Jacqueline Anderson (Canada), Regina
Vasconcellos (Brazil), Erno Csati (Hungary), and Corne Van
Elzakker (Netherlands).  There was a considerable amount of time
spent by each member of the committee in viewing the maps and
discussing them to come to a consensus regarding the winners.
 
The committee agreed on guidelines for the judging as a first
step in the process.  We decided to choose five winners from the
13 European country submissions and one each from Australia,
Asia, Africa, North America, and South America.  All the
continents except the Antarctic were thus represented.  The
winners and map titles were, in alphabetical order by country and
with age in ( )s:
     Kathryn Hamill (14), Billanook College, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
"Abstract World Map, Showing Flags and Features"
     Stefan Thompson Folch (5), English Institute, Santiago,
CHILE  [Untitled]
     Julia Papp (14), Tunyogmatolcs Primary School, Kossuth
Lajos, HUNGARY  "Solidarity"
     Lukasz Rybak (11), 3 Lipowa Str., Plochocin/Warszawa, POLAND
"We Preserve the Environment of the Earth Together"
     Jana Duranka (15), Gymnazium, Nova Bana, SLOVAK REPUBLIC
"Carovny Svet Detskych Snov [Wonderful World of a Child's Dream]"
     Candice Winterboer (14), Lyttelton Manor High School,
Verwoerdburg, REPUBLIC OF  SOUTH AFRICA  "Distribution of
Endangered Wild-Life Due to Environmental Pollution"
     Jonathan Limones Lopez & Juan Jose Febrero Garcia (15),
C/Rio Llobregat, Alpicat, Lleida, SPAIN  [Untitled]
     Benjamin Nicholls (7), 101 Horwood Houses, Keele,
Staffordshire, UNITED KINGDOM  "Children Unite!"
     Marissa Cancellieri (12), Harbor Day School, Corona Del Mar,
California, USA  "The World is for Everyone"
     Nguyen Thi Phuong Anh (12), 6 School Amsterdam, Hanoi,
VIETNAM  "The World Map in my Cone Hat"
 
At the General Assembly on Saturday morning, September 9, 1995, a
Working Group on Children and Cartography, chaired by Jacqueline
Anderson, was approved.  One of the terms of reference for this
working group will be the responsibility for this competition in
the future, including preparation of guidelines for entries and
judging.  With this, we can look forward to seeing more such
competitions at future ICA conferences.