8 students honored in digital interactive mapping national contest

Five high schoolers and three middle schoolers were honored in a national competition of digital storymaps.

Eight First State students have been recognized for their excellence in a national interactive mapping contest.

The Esri’s 2024 ArcGIS webapp competition challenges students to create and share interactive mapping projects using ESRI ArcGIS software.

First Staters created digital storymaps that explore some aspect of life in Delaware.

Click on the project names below to view the maps.

Here’s who placed this year:

High School

• 1st Place: Chanel Beck of Brandywine School District’s Brandywine High School — “’The Delaware Indians’: The First People of the First State”
• 2nd place: Natalie Lewis of Caesar Rodney School District’s Caesar Rodney High School — “ Harriet Tubman’s Underground Railroad”
• 3rd place: Levi Levine of Brandywine High — “ Horseshoe Crabs: Delaware’s Most Helpful Living Fossil”
• 4th place: Hudson Dooley of Red Clay Consolidated School District’s Charter School of Wilmington — “ Understanding State Immigration and Refugees”
• 5th place: Caleb Comley and Alexander Bovell of Charter School of Wilmington — “ Educational Attainment in Wilmington”

Middle School

• 1st place: Eric Lewis, a home school student — “ The duPont Family in Delaware”
• 2nd place: Katia Smith of Christina School District’s Christiana Honors Academy — “ Seaside Wonders”
• 3rd place: Natalia Smith of Christiana Honors Academy — “ The Inside Scoop: The Ice Cream Shops of Delaware”

Honorable mentions were given to Parker Cuff of Odyssey Charter School for “ Where There is a Need, There is a Lion” and Elliot Warburton & Rita Nyamikah of Red Clay Consolidated School District’s AI duPont HS: Evolution of AI duPont Feeder Pattern (link not available).