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Geography Awareness Week Prize Winners and Quiz Answers


In 1987, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation establishing the third week in November as Geography Awareness Week.  Over twenty years later, geographers continue to promote the importance of geographic literacy throughout the United States and Canada.  This year, MCC’s Geosciences Department celebrated the 3rd annual Geography Awareness Week with an online quiz that challenged participants in physical geography, human geography, and geographic techniques.  The focus this year is on the Americas.  Over sixty people took the quiz.  Three staff/faculty and three students received a prize in their respective category (faculty/staff or student).  The top three performing students were: Steven Lippa, Fawn VanVelson, and Bradley Kommeth.  The top three performing faculty/staff were Linda Ziegler, Ron DeFrank, and Elaine Derrenbacher.  These geography gurus received their geography themed prizes from Geosciences faculty: Michael Boester, Jonathon Little and Dan Robertson. 

The questions and answers to this year’s quiz can be found at:
https://web.monroecc.edu/manila/webfiles/jlittle/documents/2008AwarenessWeekQuiz-ANSWERS.doc

Geography Awareness Week winners pose with their prizes (left Figure). From left to right: Michael Boester, Fawn VanVelson, Ron DeFrank, Bradley Kommeth, and Jon Little. Linda Ziegler is in the figure to the right. Steven Lippa and Elaine Derrenbacher also earned prizes.

Jonathon Little and Michael Boester
Department: Chemistry and Geosciences
12/17/2008