How Sweet It Is!
GIS Day "Takes the Cake"
Many organizations have sweetened their GIS Day events by serving a GIS Day cake (or cookies) that was almost too pretty to eat.
Did you take a picture of your GIS Day cake? Send it to gisday-success@esri.com, and we'll post it here for others to see and get ideas from!
2009 Photos
Punjab University in Lahore, Pakistan, celebrated their GIS Day activites with this cake. Read more about their event. Submitted by Muhammad Haris.
San Diego Mesa College hosted 300 high school students for "The Amazing GPS Race." Michael Fitzgerald of Mesa College's Culinary Department baked up some yummy and amazing GIS cakes for volunteers, staff, and attendees. See closeup. Read more about their event. Submitted by Michelle Kinzel.
Professors and undergraduate geography students celebrated their first GIS Day last October 18, 2009, with this cake at Federal University of Alfenas, MG, Brazil. Read more about their event. Submitted by Prof. Rubia Gomes Morato.
Pulaski Area Geographic Information System [PAgis] in North Little Rock, Arkansas celebrated GIS Day with this cake symbolic of a dollar bill representing the economic impact of development using GIS. Read more about their event. Submitted by Julie Kent.
They celebrated GIS Day for the 11th time at the University of Environmental and Life Sciences in Wroclaw, Poland. Their event was attended by more than 200 secondary school students. Together about 400 people took part in the happening. They were introduced to what GIS is and heard about software and technology. They also could taste our GIS Day cake. Submitted by Anna Kurdyk.
This cake was served at the GIS Day event in Columbus, Georgia. Submitted by Jeff Griffin, GIS Coordinator.
Haywood County, North Carolina, celebrated with this cake. Submitted by Stephanie Parkins.
This cake was made my Nani Verzon, Carrie Davis, and Maci Edwards for GIS Day 2009 at the Center of Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST). Read their agenda. Submitted by Carrie Davis.
McLean County, Illinois, Regional Planning Commission celebrated GIS Day in Bloomington with a day-long open house event and this cake. Read more about their event. Submitted by Khalid Hasan, GISP.
At Northwest A & F University (NWSUAF) in Yang Ling, China, they enjoyed the "flavor" of GIS Day with this lovely cake. Read more about their event. Submitted by Liu Zhiyong.
This GIS Day cake was served at the 3-GIS event in Decatur, Alabama. Pictured above are Tammy Vandiver, Office Manager, and Ali Hyatt, Marketing Assistant. See closeup. Submitted by Tom Counts, President.
Natalie Walton and Shannon McKinnon (pictured above) of the Wilson County GIS and Mapping Department (North Carolina) celebrated GIS Day by attending a Career Fair for their local middle schools where they taught eighth graders about GIS and how their local government utilizes it. They also held training classes for their fellow County Departments, encouraging them to think of ways they could use GIS to work smarter! They also enjoyed this cake (see closeup) made by Natalie. Submitted by Shannon McKinnon, GIS Technician.
Black & Veatch in Redhill, United Kingdom celebrated GIS Day with their office by having a map-based online quiz and by eating this GIS Day globe cake. Submitted by Paul Hart.
These are the GIS Day toolbar cupcakes Adrian Bellomo made with Carly Vendegna for their GIS Day celebration at the University of Richmond. See closeup. Submitted by Adrian Bellomo.
The monthly meeting for the Alaska Arc User Group fell on GIS Day, Nov. 18, 2009. The speaker topic was the Statewide Digital Mapping Initiative and making the best use of the WMS/WFS/WCS services offered by the SDMI and the Geographic Information Network of Alaska (GINA). This cake was made for the meeting attendees to celebrate GIS Day while we learned how to be more effective in our GIS work around the Great Land of Alaska. Cake made by Tricia Saulnier Littlejohn, President of AAUG.
This was the GIS Day cake that the Acopian Center for the Environment (ACE) had at the American University of Armenia in Yerevan, Armenia. Read more about their event. Submitted by Meike Schaefer.
The GIS Day cake at the 2009 GIS Day at Boulder County, Colorado. Submitted by Mary Hagler, Business Analyst, Boulder County Information Technology.
This big chocolate cake was enjoyed by geocoders, project managers, and guests invited to the office of Intetics Co. (Kharkov, Ukraine) after open house event on November 18, 2009, where they showed GIS presentations and shared news of digital navigation maps development. See closeup of cake. Submitted by Victoria Alexandrova, Offshore Production Center manager.
The Bermuda Government's GIS Day celebration was made that much sweeter with this delicious GIS Day cake, made by The Crow Lane Bakery. The cake's image, designed by Jessie Hallett, cleverly illustrates the evolution of mapping in Bermuda since our colonization 400 years ago. The image includes the Bermuda Zoological Society's aerial photo mosaic, capturing the Bermuda islands and the beautiful blues and greens of our reef platform. See closeup of cake. Submitted by Mandy Shailer MSc, GIS/Research Officer, Department of Conservation Services.
GIS Section, recently established in Roads & Transport Authority - Dubai, celebrated GIS Day for the first time with this GIS Day cake. Pictured left to right are Wisam Raouf Mahmoud, GIS Engineer; AbdulMonem Kharsa, GIS Manager; and Mohamad Obeid, Senior GIS Analyst. See closeup of cake. Submitted by Mohamad Obeid.
This cake was created to celebrate GIS Day at Idaho State University's GIS Center and to celebrate the NAIP acquisition completed for Idaho this year. It was a big statewide effort, and the GIS Director at ISU was very involved. Submitted by Keith Weber, GIS Director.
Alaska's DNR in Anchorage held its 3rd annual GIS Day with wonderful success and this GIS Day cake. Submitted by Sean Conlon, GIS specialist.
The GIS department at Riverside County's Transportation and Land Management Agency in Riverside, California, celebrated GIS Day with this GIS Day north arrow cake. Submitted by Jeanne MacNeil, GIS Analyst, TLMA.
The University of Virginia Scholars' Lab celebrated GIS Day wrapping up a four day Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship. UVA alum and former rocket scientist Andrew Turner delivered the public keynote "Neogeography: from Tower to Town Hall." Submitted by Kelly Johnston, GIS Specialist.
Thurrock Council in Essex, England celebrated GIS Day 2009 by holding an open day. They showcased their work, had live demonstrations, and held a couple of competitions. They also had a great cake made especially by one of their colleagues. The event was very successful with over 80 people dropping in. Submitted by Sandra Bain, GIS Manager.
For the Coachella Valley Association of Governments' GIS Day cake, they featured a map showing the Conservation Areas of the Coachella Valley Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan, a heavily GIS-oriented habitat conservation plan designed to protect 240,000 acres of open space and protect 27 plant and animal species. The event was held in Palm Desert, California. Submitted by Nicholas Peihl, GIS Analyst.
After an educational and fun-filled day at Cook County, the enterprise GIS 2009 celebration ended with a scrumptious cake engraved with this year's GIS Day logo. The event brought 12 agencies together to bestow honors on seven area GIS experts, host a poster contest, enjoy a geographic trivia game, and preview the release of a citizen-based Mapviewer application. Pictured are Dan Falbo (ESRI representative), Felicia Barker (Cook County GIS), and Alan Hobscheid (Manager of Cook County Government's GIS Department). Submitted by Mary Jo Horace, Director, Department of Geographic Information Systems and Special Projects, Bureau of Technology.
This GIS Day cake was served at the event in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. Submitted by Genevieve Ouimet, biologiste.
Cobb County in Marietta, Georgia celebrated the 10th Anniversary of their Enterprise GIS this year. This cake was made by Sara Mayberry and served at an open house where they shared displays and presentations with the public. Submitted by Sara Mayberry, Geographic Information Systems.
This cake was presented at an open house on November 18, 2009 at the Glenn H. Curtiss Musuem, Hammondsport, New York. The cake has a photo of the map that was created using data supplied by the Galloping Grapes 4-H Club. New York State Governor David Paterson proclaimed it GIS Day. The event was sponsored by Cornell Cooperative Extension Steuben County. Submitted by Cindy Loucks.
GIS Day in Lithuania, Kaunas College, Faculty of Land Management, Geodesy Department. This year to celebrate GIS Day all the Lithuanian secondary school and gymnasium students were invited to our event; 60 students attended. They were introduced to what GIS is and had various tests and tasks related to GIS. The event culminated with our GIS Day cake, prepared by Geodesy department.
Pictured from right to left are: Photogrammetry teacher Ilona Urbanaviciene, GIS ingineer Sarunas Zukauskas, GIS teacher Ausra Sikorskyte, lecturer of geodesy Aurelijus Zivatkauskas, the head of GIS competency center Dalia Kiveriene, GIS teacher Dovile Rusonyte, head of the Department of Geodesy Birute Nenortaite, secretary of the Department of Geodesy Inga Buneviciene, and geodesy ingineer Ligita Sabaliauskiene. See closeup of cake. Submitted by Ligita Sabaliauskiene.
Students and faculty of Jahangirnagar University in Bangladesh finished off their rally/march around the campus with this GIS Day cake. See closeup of cake. Submitted by Jamail Basir, Department of Geography and Environment.
Surry County in Dobson, North Carolina, celebrated with this GIS Day cake. See closeup of cake. Pictured are Will Moore, GIS analyst, GISP, and Una Freeman, GISP, Surry County GIS Coordinator. They are the GIS Department in Surry. Submitted by Una Freeman.
This cake was served at a reception on Nov. 18, 2009, at which the mayor of Grand Forks signed a proclamation in recognition of GIS Day 2009. The cake displays an aerial photograph of part of the campus of the University of North Dakota. Submitted by Bradley Rundquist, Dept. of Geography, Univ. of North Dakota.
After an introduction to GIS, the faculty at St. Paul's School in Covington, Louisiana, was treated to this GIS Day cake made by the event coordinator, Mary Pierson. Submitted by Barbaree Duke.
This year at the University of Kentucky, our geo-bakers' rendition of the new hospital literally "takes the cake"! Constructed of cake, sugar wafers, and rice krispy treats, this 8" tall colossal, edible rendition of the hospital is built around a plot of our GIS floor plan interior space management application and celebrates our biggest GIS project to date. Unlike the real construction of this facility, our edible hospital was way over budget and took longer than expected, in part due to construction materials being consumed at the job site. See closeup of cake; there is even a helicopter on the rooftop. The back is a pedway made of rice krispy treats. Pictured from left to right are: Chris Doerge, Michelle Ellington, Shawn Reynolds, Allison Westcote, Andrew Blues, and Katherine Loving. Submitted by Michelle Ellington, GISP, GIS Analyst, UK Physical Plant Division.
The GIS Library at ESRI headquarters in Redlands, California, celebrated GIS Day with mini cupcakes using the new GIS Day logo as inspiration. The decorations are made from fruit roll-ups. Made and submitted by Colleen Conner, ESRI Library.
Staff members from the Town of The Blue Mountains in Thornbury, Ontario, Canada, enjoyed the "flavour" of GIS Day. The cake was prepared by Lindsay Gosnell. Submitted by Lindsay Gosnell, GIS Coordinator.
They celebrated GIS Day at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with this cake. Submitted by Clio Andris.
The GIS Day event at the Riverside County Flood Control & Water Conservation District
in Riverside, California, featured their GIS cookies and the "Four Corners Cake." Submitted by Alma Hidalgo, GIS Analyst.
Employees at ESRI headquarters in Redlands, California, celebrated GIS Day in the Cafe with this festive chocolate sheet cake with banana cream filling.
GIS Day was celebrated by the CALIBRE's Range Control GIS staff at Fort Rucker, Alabama. A GIS Day cake was prepared by Callean Forehand, wife of GIS Coordinator Justin Forehand (center). Pictured from left to right are: GIS Technician, Andrew Windham; GIS Coordinator, Justin Forehand; and GIS Analyst, Sarah Conners. See closeup of cake. Submitted by Andrew Windham, SRP GIS Technician, Range Branch, Training Division, DPTMS.
They celebrated GIS Day today in the Township of Springwater (Ontario, Canada) by holding 2 very successful GIS training sessions. Pictured left to right are: Mary Veenstra, Jennett Mays, Karen Foster, Nancy Tuckett, Jane Loftus, Eric Whent, Laura Thompson, Kayla Thibeault, Ron Belcourt, Catherine Mawdsley, and Brent Spagnol. Submitted by Laura Thompson, Junior Planner, Township of Springwater.
Lindsay Ringgold made this cake for their GIS Day celebration at the Office of Governor O'Malley in Annapolis, Maryland. Submitted by Lindsay Major Ringgold, StateStat Analyst.
This cake was made by Dustin Frey and Rachel Byrd for their Tetra Tech office in Collinsville, Illinois. Their co-workers are busy enjoying it now. Submitted by Rachel Byrd, GIS Analyst.
The GIS section of the international oil and gas company located in Atyrau, Republic of Kazakhstan, celebrated GIS Day with this cake. See closeup of cake. Submitted by Tatyana Yanbayeva, GIS Engineer.
GIS Day was celebrated in the Pinellas County Planning Department with a GIS Day cake prepared by Denise Welch. There were over thirty people attending from around the County held in Clearwater, Florida. Team members pictured with the cake are (from left to right); David Walker, Lawrence Hicks, Ron Bulen, Denise Welch, Chip Haynes, Alan Shellhorn. See closeup of cake. Submitted by Alan Shellhorn, GIS Applications Specialist.
In Iraq, the USAID/RTI-LGPIII and Basra local governments celebrated with Basra GIS Day on August 18, 2009, at Al-sayab Hall in Basra provincial council building with the particiation of 80 persons interested in GIS. Submitted by Murtadha Al-ali, GIS Advisor.
Sallah Ad Deen GIS Centre, in cooperation with LGPIII, held their GIS Day event on July 27, 2009, in Tikrit, Iraq. This was the second GIS Day event held by Sallah Ad Deen GIS Centre. Submitted by Sinan Jasim Hadi, GIS Manager.