GIS Day Cakes from 2008
GIS-shaped cookies were created by Arianne Hefling and Sharon Wong for the GIS Day event held in Santa Monica, California. Read more about their event. Submitted by Sharon Wong, GIS Analyst, Information Systems Department.
City of Indio, California and Teen Center celebrated GIS Day with this cake. Read more about their event. Submitted by Emina Sulych.
City of College Station, Texas, held their first GIS Day in 2008 and celebrated with this cake. Read more about their event. Submitted by Dawn Killian, GIS Tech.
This cake was presented to the GIS Section by the rest of the department—Legal, Lands, and Planning—on their annual GIS Day on Wednesday, 19th November 2008, on St. Helena Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. Submitted by Ayla Phillips, GIS Technician.
A Senior GIS professor participating in GIS cake cutting at PUCIT (Punjab University), Lahore, Pakistan. The 5-pound cake said "I love GIS." Read more about their event. Submitted by Muhammad Haris, Software Engineer/GIS Consultant, Palmchip Pakistan.
The GIS Services Department of Forsyth County, Georgia, celebrated GIS Day by hosting a GIS Day Gala event. They had representatives from government agencies, local businesses, and national firms join them with displays in their map gallery and presentations in the main event. The morning was topped off with this fabulous GIS Day cake (shown by John M. Kilgore, GIS Services Director) which was generously sponsored by the Cumming-Forsyth County Chamber of Commerce. It was half chocolate with fresh strawberry filling and half vanilla with lemon custard. And it was ALL gone at the end of the day. Submitted by Mary Jo Black Enderby.
Madison County, Indiana's GIS Day Cake was made by staff member Rachel Christenson for their GIS Day festivities organized by Adesola Adeyemo, GIS Specialist, and Trent Pell, GIS Coordinator. Read more about their event. Submitted by Trent Pell.
This cake was prepared for GIS Day 2008 at National University of Water Management and Nature Resources Use. Rivne, Ukraine. Submitted by Denis Dubinets.
The entire student body (1,645 students) of the Hannibal High School, Kenney Middle School, and Fairley Elementary School participated in this event in Hannibal, New York. Students, teachers, and support staff shared in consuming 11 or more staff-designed GIS cakes during lunch. Every individual in the school district was given a GIS Day sticker to wear for the week, compliments of our partnership with Entergy Corporation. Pictured above is Danielle LaRonia. Submitted by Robert Jones, Technology Teacher, Kenney Middle School.
This cake was enjoyed Nov 19th, 2008, at the GIS Day open house celebration at the District of Saanich, Vancouver Island, Canada. Two of their GIS staff, Denise Mathie and Paul Brend, try not to devour the cake before serving it! Submitted by Nicola Parfett, GISP, Geomatics Technologist, District of Saanich.
This cake was prepared by Denise Welch and served at the Pinellas County Planning Department GIS/Graphics section's GIS Day open house held in Clearwater, Florida. The cake included elevated mountain ranges in icing and their county logo. See closeup. Pictured are Pinellas County Planning Department GIS/Graphics staff (from left to right): Richard Valentine, Chip Haynes, Alan Shellhorn, David Dada, Matt Larsen, Larry Hicks, Denise Welch (the cake maker), Shannon McKinnon. Submitted by Alan Shellhorn, Department GIS Applications Specialist, Pinellas County Planning Department.
"The University of Kentucky Facilities [in Lexington, Kentucky] celebrated GIS Day 2008 by promoting its new type of cartographic output with its CAD-to-CAKE conversion efforts. Post CAD-to-CAKE, geostatistical analysis was performed by employees mapping their years of service on a sugary floor plan layout. Five edible categories symbolized years of service to UK with seasoned employees dominating early arrival times and window offices. Floor plan analysis never tasted so sweet with the results offering proof that M&Ms melt in your mouth, not in your hands." Submitted by Michelle Ellington, GISP, GIS Analyst, Physical Plant Division.
At MUS in the Czech Republic, they prepared a GIS Day cake and GIS Day T-shirts decorated with the special logo which they created for GIS Day in their company. This logo represents Earth in the mouth because their motto for this year was "Celebrate GIS Day 2008 with the smile!" See closeup of cake. Submitted by Tereza Koudelkova & Michaela Hola, Mostecka uhelna a.s., Czech Republic.
Several employees at the Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska made GIS Day cookies. There was a variety of artistic impressions of the globe. Submitted by Terry Lamberson, GIS Services, Data, Projects & Procurement Division, Information Technology Department, Municipality of Anchorage.
Bermuda's first GIS Day cake! The Bermuda Government's GIS Committee celebrated GIS Day 2008 at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum, and Zoo. This delicious GIS Day cake was served to attendees during an exhibition of GIS demonstrations. Displays included examples of GIS use in archaeology, topographic surveys, addressing, and conservation of Bermuda's unique natural environment. Learn more about Bermuda's most comprehensive mapping and assessment project at http://bermudabream.blogspot.com/. See closeup of cake. Submitted by Mandy Shailer MSc, GIS/Research Officer, Bermuda Government, Department of Conservation Services.
This cake was served at the GIS Day open house held at Eagan, McAllister Associates, Inc. (EMA) in Lexington Park, Maryland. Submitted by Jonathan K. Linn, Ph.D., GIS Program Manager, EMA.
This elaborate cake was served in Haywood County, North Carolina. Submitted by Stephanie S. Parkins, Land Records/GIS Director, Haywood County.
The Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia hosted GIS Day festivities highlighted by map expert and digital innovator David Rumsey speaking on "Giving Maps a Second Life with Digital Technologies," a map gallery display, a user showcase with 13 area groups demonstrating their GIS accomplishments, a guided tour of the historic Schwartz map collection, and a luncheon talk by Dr. John Scrivani of the Virginia Department of Forestry. Mr. Rumsey's talk was co-sponsored by the UVA Center for Emerging Research, Scholarship and the Arts. The GIS Day cake was decorated with an aerial photo of Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village. Submitted by Kelly Johnston, GIS Specialist, The Scholars' Lab, Digital Scholarship Services, University of Virginia Library.
The Dept. of Geosciences at Oregon State University held a Geo Bake-Off to kick off GIS Day. Volunteers donated baked goods (pictured above are rum cake, edible GPS unit, flags of the world cookies) and held a lunch-time bake sale to support the Geo Club. Geo Club members are planning a club field trip to Israel and Palestine in the spring, and these yummy goodies helped spread the word about GIS Day and contribute to the Spring Break trip plans. Submitted by Michelle Kinzel, Campus GIS TA.
The Geosciences Department at Oregon State University celebrated GIS Day with a visit from over 200 middle school students from the Willamette Valley. To prepare for the event, volunteers attended a training session to learn how to use the GPS units and then enjoyed a pizza feast and this cake. Submitted by Michelle Kinzel, Campus GIS TA.
Jahangirnagar University in Bangladesh celebrated GIS Day with this impressive cake that was served after a large rally and GIS presentations. See closeup of cake. Cutting the cake are Professor Dr. Razia Sultana and Professor Dr. M. Nazrul Islam. Submitted by Jamail Basir, Department of Geography and Environment.
This cake was served at the GIS Day celebration held at Atyrau City, Kazakhstan. Submitted by Aidos Malybayev, GIS DBA.
Bulgaria celebrated GIS Day 2008 with presentations and demonstrations at five universities. In this 2-story cake, the first floor contained the GIS Day logo while the second floor represented the map of Bulgaria. "It was really beautiful, big and, of course, really tasty!" Submitted by Evgenia Luchkova, Marketing Assistant, ESRI Bulgaria Ltd.
PAGIS (Pulaski Area GIS) celebrated GIS Day at the Alltel Arena in North Little Rock, Arkansas. They chose "GIS to the Rescue" as their theme due to the tornado outbreak and flooding within the state this year. The cake on the left represents the tornado track while the cake on the right represents the flooding area along the White River. Submitted by Julie Kent.
The Clay County, Minnesota, GIS Department had this cake for their event. It gave the GIS team time to slow down and talk to everyone about how GIS could be used to help other departments and originations. Pictured, left to right, are: Andrea Travnicek, GIS Tech.; Mark Sloan, GIS Coordinator; and Carol Wickenheiser, GIS Database Administrator. Their event was covered by the local TV news station. Submitted by Mark Pearson.
The Town of Newmarket (Ontario, Canada) celebrated GIS Day 2008 in style. See closeup of their cake (made by Diane Bone, Purchasing dept.). The GIS Section did an excellent job teaching their fellow employees about the wonderful world of GIS. Staff enjoyed this delicious cake and completed challenging, yet highly educational quizzes that showed all of the things that GIS has to offer. Pictured (in their ESRI "Geogeek" tshirts) are the GIS team, left to right: Scott Ansell (Technician), Tania Ferus (Technician), and Annaliese Vollick (Co-ordinator). Submitted by Tania Ferus.
The GIS staff at Connected Nation in Washington, DC, celebrated GIS Day 2008 with this cake emblazoned with a Kentucky Broadband Platform Map. The map, which is a comprehensive overview of broadband (or high-speed) internet services across the state of Kentucky, was enjoyed by all Connected Nation employees. A data frame, a border, a neatline, a north arrow, and a title bar: a map export never tasted so good. Submitted by John Walker, GIS Analyst, Connected Nation.
This GIS Day cake was served during the Conference on Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences in Poland (UE). The GIS Day conference and GIS workshops had about 580 participants. Submitted by Christopher Sosnica, Headmaster of Scientic Cirle of Geoinformatics.
This cake, served at the Savannah Area GIS (SAGIS) event in Savannah, Georgia, was to thank the 23 public, private, and educational organizations that put on the event which was held to educate local school children about GIS and its many different applications. Submitted by Noel Perkins, GISP, Director, SAGIS.
Our first non-cake entry, this was done for the Texas Water Development Board event in Austin, Texas. The "Texas Hummus Map Plate" was created out of a 24"x30" inch map. Some of the highest peaks were almost 3 inches high. Submitted by Miguel A. Pavon, Texas/Mexico Borderlands Information Center Administrator.
McLean County Regional Planning Commisssion had this cake and the one below for their "GIS in Our Community" day-long activities. Submitted by Khalid Hasan, Director of Regional GIS.
Submitted by Khalid Hasan, Director of Regional GIS.
This cake was served to 150 teachers and students at CamTech High School in Camden, North Carolina, courtesy of members of the Albemarle Regional GIS Users Group. Submitted by Amy Durden, NCCPM, GIS Coordinator, City of Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
At the U.S. Army Environmental Command they celebrated GIS Day by setting up a map gallery for the week, providing three training sessions this week, and hosting a reception on Wednesday. For the reception Ashley made this globe cake. See how it was made, step by step. Submitted by Ashley Ann Talley, Physical Scientist, IMAE-RTD.
Alaska's Dept. of Natural Resources (DNR) celebrated the 10th Annual GIS Day with its 2nd map gallery. The event presented maps from around the department demonstrating how GIS is applied to Alaska's natural resources. Submitted by Sean Conlon, Natural Resource Specialist.
Snohomish County, Washington, celebrated GIS Day with a public Map Gallery and a GIS reception were the cake was enjoyed by all. Submitted by Carrol B. Lane, Principal GIS Analyst, Cartography/GIS, Planning and Development Services.
Gingermaps and Sugarmaps were enjoyed by the CH2M HILL's Chicago office. Submitted by Kari Ann Buckvold, CH2M HILL.
The Alaska Arc User Group (AAUG) celebrated the 10th Annual GIS Day at their monthly meeting in Anchorage, Alaska. They had a record turnout of about 35 people for this month's meeting. Several GIS consultants from around the Anchorage area gave brief presentations about the work they do with GIS for Alaska and beyond. See cake details. Submitted by Tricia D. Saulnier-Littlejohn, GIS Specialist, AAUG Co-President.
Celebrating GIS Day 2008 at Black & Veatch in Redhill, United Kingdom. Submitted by Paul Hart.
This cake was enjoyed by County of Simcoe (Ontario, Canada employees) on GIS Day. Submitted by Aaron Roininen, Geographic Information Systems, Corporation of the County of Simcoe.
Oceanteam Geosciences decided on individual earths for each member of the team at their event held in Norwich, United Kingdom. Submitted by Sarah Taigel, GIS Analyst, Oceanteam Geosciences.
County of Simcoe, Ontario, Canada basemap cake. Submitted by Jennifer Tiffin, Geographic Information Systems, Corporation of the County of Simcoe.
Employees at ESRI's Redlands headquarters enjoyed a piece of this strawberry genache cake in the employee cafe on GIS Day 2008.
The City of Evansville/Vanderburgh County Indiana celebrated GIS Day 2007 with this GIS Day cookie. Submitted by Laura Howell, GIS Specialist for Mark Rolley Consulting, Inc.
Michael H. Silich, GISP, is pictured next to the GIS Day cake enjoyed by those attending the Racine County Land Information Office 2006 event in Sturtevant, Wisconsin. Submitted by Mike Silich.
This cake was distributed to the Team of GIS Base Mapping and the Stake holders in Kirkuk City/ Iraq on the GIS Day, 27th July, 08. Submitted by Nashwa Hameed.
A GIS Day event was held in Iraq / Sallah aldeen province/ Tikrit city on 27 July 2008, and this cake was served. Submitted by Eng. Sinan J. Hadi.
A GIS Day celebration was held in Karbala, Iraq and about 60 persons participated in this event including the Governor and the managers of the service departments. Submitted by GIS-Senior Eng. Raid R. Almuhanna.
This cake was served 27th July 2008 at GIS Day celebration held at the City of As SUlaymaniyah, Iraq; there was not a single crumb left after cutting. Submitted by Nabaz Slahaddin Maruf, Sr.GIS Engineer.
This cake was served 27th July 2008 at a small GIS Day celebration held at the City of Ar ramadi_Al- Aanbar, Iraq; there was not a single crumb left after cutting. Submitted by Rasha Hameed, GIS Engineer.