Intergraph Honors Winners of Best Practices Award and Student Poster Competitions

Awards promote classroom use of GIS technology

ATLANTA, June 12, 2002 * GeoSpatial World 2002 * Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions is pleased to announce the winners of the first international Best Practices Award and Student Poster Competitions, sponsored by the Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions for Education Program. The worldwide competitions recognize projects and programs based on Intergraph's GeoMedia(R) and MGE technology. Students were invited to display their creative and innovative use of geographic information systems (GIS) software in the classroom by submitting posters. Educators were asked to submit entries that illustrate groundbreaking GIS programs in the classroom.

The awards were presented by Preetha Pulusani, president of Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions, at GeoSpatial World 2002, in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 12, where winners of the Best Practices Award also presented their papers. Winning entries from the Poster Competition were on display throughout the conference, and all winners received a cash award and complimentary registration at GeoSpatial World 2002 in recognition of their achievement. Biographies and abstracts of the winning entries can be found at www.intergraph.com/education.

"We were delighted with the high caliber and international range of entries for Intergraph's first Best Practice Award and Poster Competitions," said Susan Nolen, executive manager for Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions' Program for Education. "We were impressed by the depth and quality of entries. To further the excitement for the mapping and GIS sciences, we extended the awards to include certificates of merit for outstanding entries in addition to the top students and educators who were honored."

The winning entries included:

Poster Competition I - K-12 and primary and secondary schools

-- Jimmy Alexander Harper, first-place winner, Fountain Lake Cobra EAST Lab, USA

Poster Competition II - Community colleges, technical schools, universities, and distance-learning programs

-- Thomas Hilker, first-place winner, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Germany

-- Russell Bigley, second-place winner, Northern Illinois University, USA

-- Doria Tai Yun Tyng and team members, third-place winners, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

Best Practices Award

-- Michal Kucera and Jiri Machacek, first-place winners, Masaryk University of Brno, Czech Republic

-- Rainer Ketteman and Dietrich Schroeder, second-place winners, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Germany

-- Catharina Riedemann and Werner Kuhn, third-place winners, University of Muenster, Germany

Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions

Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions brings together geospatial and information technology to help customers achieve their business goals. A technology innovator with more than 30 years of market leadership, Intergraph serves government agencies and commercial enterprises worldwide with end-to-end geospatial solutions for cartography and map production and enterprisewide mapping and GIS. The company provides superior customer support and services ranging from project implementation to production.

Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions is a division of Intergraph Corporation (NASDAQ: INGR), Huntsville, Ala., and does business in more than 60 countries through its wholly owned subsidiaries and global distributor and partner network. 

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