ESRI ArcGIS Story Map Competition

DC Chapter

“The first-ever DC Competition is ON THE MAP!”

Charlie Fitzpatrick, Director of ESRI Competition

How to become eligible

Entrants must be pre-collegiate students, registered in grades 4-12 at the time of project submission, from public schools or non-public schools including online schools or home schools, who have not yet received a high school diploma or equivalent.
Entrants must reside and be in school in the United States, including districts or territories, or attending a Department of Defense Education Activity school: 50 states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, US Virgin Islands, and DODEA sites. (Thus, "state" in this document means one of these 57 units.) The state must be officially a "participating state" (i.e., a state leadership team has officially registered; see Part VII).
Students can work singly or in a team of two, but can participate in only one entry. Teams with one student in middle school (gr.4-8) and one in high school (gr.9-12) must be considered as high school. Entry level is determined by student's grade (MS= gr.4-8, HS= gr.9-12), not by school name (e.g Lincoln Junior High School students in gr.7-8 participate in the MS competition while the gr.9 participants are in the HS competition). A team of two students from different schools can submit an entry to one school only.
Entrants may work on the challenge through a school, a club, an "educational pod," or independently, but entries must be submitted to the state from their primary school of record (a recognized school or home school), regardless of engaging in activities at more than one location.
Any school or home school program can submit to the state a maximum of five (5) entries total, counting the sum of middle school and high school entries.

What does an entry look like?

Student entries must be from an ArcGIS Online Organization account (not a "public account"). Any K12 school (public, non-public, or homeschool) or formal youth club can request for free an ArcGIS School/Club Bundle (includes an ArcGIS Organization account).
Entries must be an ArcGIS StoryMap (must be the "new" template, not one of the "classic" templates), using an address of "storymaps.arcgis.com" (not "storymaps.com"), and in the form of a single StoryMap (not a collection).
Entries must focus on content within the state borders. States may choose to refine the focus further, but the geographic scope of the project must be within the state. The project may reference data outside the state "for context," but may not extend the focus of the study beyond the state borders. For example, broader patterns of environmental characteristics or demographic movements may be referenced for context, but the focus must be on phenomena within the state.

Awards

Participating states may award identical $100 prizes to up to 5 HS projects and up to 5 MS projects. From their awardees, states may identify 1 HS and 1 MS "state winners" (1HS+1MS) to be entered in a final level of competition, a national level to be judged by Esri.
Optional video: Each state's chosen 1HS+1MS state winners are also invited to create and submit a video of up to 3 minutes (max of 180 seconds) for Esri to post along with the StoryMap. The videos should be in .mp4 format and 1080x720 (or higher) resolution. The videos will not be part of the national judging process but will be a way for these 1HS+1MS state winners to share more of their story to interested audiences across the state/country/globe. The deadline for Esri to receive the videos (and required permission form) is Thu May 25, 2023, 5pm Pacific Time. (See Part VI #3 for more.)
Please refer to this link for further information: https://agoschoolcomp-education.hub.arcgis.com/pages/rules#Part4

Deadlines

School Entry

Your specific school has to determine their own deadline

State Entry

April 2024

National/State Awards

May 2024