----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 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.