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Fig. 1.9 Panel session at the Ph.D./Master Forum at the CEE Symposium 2009, Vienna. From left
Prof. Dr. Georg Gartner, Prof. Dr. William Cartwright, Prof. Dr. Necla Ulugtuken, Prof. Dr. Ferjan
Ormeling and Prof. Dr. Milan Koneˇn´ (Photograph courtesy G´za Simon)
presented their research work in a dedicated Ph.D./Master Forum. Ph.D. students
presented the results of their research and a panel of experienced researchers
provided feedback to student presenters (Fig. 1.9 ).
1.5 Education for Children
The Barbara Petchenik Children's World Map Competition is organised every
second year to coincide with biennial International Conference of the Association.
This is a map design competition for children ages 15 years and younger. It is held
to honor of the late Dr. Barbara Bartz Petchenik, a past Vice President of the ICA
who was extremely interested in maps for children and children as cartographers.
The competition is organised by the ICA Commission on Children in Cartography.
This competition has been taken-up by teachers around the world to involve their
students in the world of mapping. One example of the local support to children to
enter the competition in South Africa, where staff members from the Department of
Geography of UNISA (University of South Africa) in Pretoria visited schools
throughout the country to liaise with teachers and children and explain the compe-
tition theme—“Living in a globalized world”. The photograph in Fig. 1.10 shows
Professor Elri Liebenberg, Chair of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartog-
raphy, and former ICA Vice-President, in one of these classes conducted by
UNISA.
The ICA Commission on Children in Cartography has worked with ESRI Press
to publish topics containing winning entries from the competition. Two topics have
been published. Children Map the World: Selections from the Barbara Petchenik
Children's World Map Competition (Jacqueline Anderson, Jeet Atwal, Patrick
Wiegand and Alberta Auringer Wood editors) was published in 2005. And, in
November 2009 a second topic— Children Map the World (Temenoujka Bandrova,
Jesus Reyes Nunez, Milan Koneˇn´ and Jeet Awal eds.) followed. The topics