Other Activities
- "Weekly Wind Down", camping, kickball, holiday party, annual bowling tournament
- Geography Outreach/Community Service
- Geography Awareness Week, including a campus-wide Geography Bowl
- Big Red Welcome (an event for incoming UNL students held every August)
- Multiple Sclerosis Walk - Lincoln (2005, 2006, 2007)
- Books for Africa (2004, 2005)
- Playground Map at Norwood Park Elementary (March 2003)
- Repainting of Playground Map at Norwood Park Elementary (September 2005)
- Playground Map at Atkinson, Nebraska Elementary School (August 15-16, 2003)
- Cultures of the World Nights at Holmes and Hawthorne Elementary Schools in Lincoln (May 13 and 20, 2003) and Hawthorne Elementary School on May 12, 2004
- Nebraska State Museum Family Day "Cultures of the World" - February 15, 2003
- Adopt-a-Highway - Interstate 80 mile markers 410 to 412 (2003-2005)
- Sandhill Crane watching - every March
- 2011 GSO Activities
- Geog. Awareness Week 2010
- Geog. Awareness Week 2009
- 13th Ann. Geog. Bowl
- Dr. Susan Hanson
- Prescott Elementary
- AAG Cent. Fund
March 2003
One of the Geography Student Organization's service learning projects was the creation of a map depicting the lower 48 states at a Lincoln elementary school. About six hours were spent to prep the playground before the colors were added. This included (in sequence) washing and sweeping the concrete surface, snapping a grid, drawing the outside border, applying a primer, resnapping a grid, drawing the state borders and painting them, and caulking cracks within the map.
The colors were added one week later. From left to right, Paul Kelley, Claire Brown, Joe Sather, Matt Engel, Matt Poehler, and Jenny Brackhan (cut off, sorry Jenny!)
The weather was perfect (72 degrees and sunny with a nice breeze), allowing the paint to dry quickly.
Although it was a Saturday, students attending Norwood Park stopped by to make sure we weren't messing up their beloved playground. Many asked where Alaska and Hawaii were. They now have great interest in getting on the roof of the school...
The use of the Albers equal-area (conical) projection made drawing the states a little challenging, but it resulted in a more accurate and aesthetically pleasing map.
These local tough guys, seen here displaying their bulging muscles, couldn't wait to play on the map.
Before leaving we had to get a game of twister in (some of us need a refresher in the rules). Another map will be produced during the summer of 2003 at Atkinson (Nebraska) Elementary.
