Submissions must represent outstanding real world efforts applying geography to solving customer driven problems and documenting the efforts and results in the materials submitted to the Competition Committee. The Committee expects students to clearly demonstrate how the work supports, or could support, a customer cooperating with the student (either paying or non-paying – such as a nonprofit, civic group, community, youth group, business, etc).

Especially encouraged are highly innovative submissions addressing the 2008-10 Applied Geography Service Project, “Pedestrian Safety,” that advance integrative geography by drawing on domains not typically associated with “Pedestrian Safety” such as climate, ethnic issues, disability, education, medical, recreation, rural, etc.

Papers can range from a class project or term paper to one that has been given at any professional meeting.

All participants will be given the opportunity to present at the 2009 AAG Meeting in Las Vegas, NV. Winners will be announced at the AAG Awards Banquet.