GIS Day Cakes from 2006
The Corporate Geo-Informatics directorate, City of Johannesburg, South Africa, hosted GIS Day with a breakfast celebration for their most valued clients. Over 40 clients attended presentations on new GIS developments and current services. Read more about this event.
Students with a Government High School in The Bahamas shared this first ever GIS Day cake which was designed and baked by one of the students. Read more about this event.
Hosted by the BNGIS Centre in the Bahamas, Sadie Curtis Primary School had a GIS Day celebration for the first time. At the end of the presentation, the principal, teachers, and students celebrated as they shared in the cutting of this GIS Day 2006 cake. Read more about this event.
The BNGIS Centre, Office of The Prime Minister, in the Bahamas held their event at Queen's College on Weds., 15th November 2006. The GIS Youth Club members, their supervising teacher, Mrs. Tsavoussis, and Danielle Hanek, GIS Day Coordintor, celebrated by having a GIS Day Cake for their club meeting on 16th November 2006. The cake was prepared by a local bakery for the school. Read more about this event.
At Spatial Systems Associates, Inc., in Columbia, Maryland, they had a map contest for GIS folks and a cookie contest for non-GIS folks. Above is a picture of one of the cookies that made their GIS Day a special one. It was made by Anna Riggin. Sent in by Anand Nandipati.
This cake was prepared for GIS Day 2006 at Kitsap County, Washington. Sent in by T.J. Abbenhaus, GIS/Programmer Analyst, Kitsap County IS/GIS. Read more about their event.
This cake was prepared for GIS Day 2006 at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. It was made with layers of cream and jam. Sent in by Susan Greaves, GIS/Map Librarian, MADGIC, Liaison Librarian for Geography & the School for Urban and Regional Planning, Joseph S. Stauffer Library.
These cookies were made for Hamilton, Canada's event back in 2004. "My co-workers have been after me ever since to post them on your website and make them some more to eat too. You will notice that there are two types, an Eastern and Western hemisphere cookie. They are all 'hand-painted' shortbread cookies, and I did them all from what I remembered the world to look like, I didn't want to cheat and open an atlas. I made about 10 dozen small cookies in total and the 2 more detailed ones." Get more info on how to decorate these cookies. Sent in by Mark Mitchell, GIS Technologist, Information Technology Services, Corporate Services, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
This cake was made by high school senior Dietrich Knauer's mom, Denise, for her son's presentations to five 7th grade classes at Blue Mountain Middle School in Cortlandt Manor, New York. Approximately 120 students were in attendance. Dietrich said, "Staff from the Westchester County GIS Department joined me in presenting a GIS information session at my former middle school's science classes." Sent in by Denise Knauer. Read more about Dietrich's event on page 2 of the Westchester County newsletter.
This cake was part of the GIS Day celebrations at National University in Rivne, Ukraine. The students baked and decorated it themselves. Sent in by Ruslan M. Yanchuk. Read more about their event.
Cake cutting ceremony at Forsyth County, Georgia. Sent in by Mary Jo Black Enderby. Read more about their event.
University of Kentucky GIS Day cake made by UK student, Katherine Loving. The cake was designed in GIS and the units are to scale! Sent in by Michelle Ellington, GIS Analyst, University of Kentucky Physical Plant Division. Read more about their event.
CyberTech Systems and Software Ltd., India, celebrated their first GIS Day this year. Their cake was butterscotch-flavored weighing 6 kg with vanilla cream. Sent in by Gaurav Jobanputra, GIS Analyst, CyberTech. Read more about their event.
Seminole County, Florida Public Works cake. Sent in by Lakshmi Sankaran, GISP, Sr. Coordinator, GIS/Mapping, Sanford, Florida
Institute of Aerial Geodesy (AGI) in Lithuania celebrated GIS Day for the 8th year in a row! "This year we dedicated our GIS Day event to our employees. We had a big cake that was made for our group of 26 people." Sent in by Vilma Davalgaite, Head of GIS Department. Read more about their event.
Winnebago County Geographic Information System (WinGIS) had this cake made for their GIS Day event held on November 15, 2006. "The cake was awesome! It was marble with Bavarian cream filling and whipped cream frosting." Sent in by Serina LaMendola, Communications Coordinator, WinGIS, Rockford, Illinois
GIS Day Cake from Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. Sent in by Bailey Staffen, Geomatics Technician, Geomatics Yukon, Department of Highways & Public Works
To celebrate their newly acquired GIS system, Jeanette Johnson and Becky Carr made this cake for their GIS Day event in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Sent in by Becky Carr.
GIS Day cookies made by Erin Fluegge and Caleb Maccartee, GIS interns at the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority, Pensacola, Florida. Sent in by Erin Fluegge. Closeup of the cookies.
"We had a small party in the ESRI Library celebrating GIS Day and our intern's last day. Above is a picture of the silly cakes we made, one with silly GIS book titles and one with a treasure map." Book titles are: Wizard of ESRI; Who Moved My GPS?; A Room With An ArcView; ARRRCBooty, GIS fer Pirates; and Harry Plotter & the Raster Disaster. --Colleen Conner, ESRI