Cibinong, Geospatial News - Geospatial Information Agency located at Jalan Raya Bogor KM 46, Cibinong, West Java, from October 14-16, held a Student Day event in the context of the 50th Geospatial Information Day 2019 for students / I of school or college. This event is an annual event and is held together to celebrate BIG's birthday as well as Geospatial Information Day. What's interesting about this student day is that students from elementary and junior high schools can learn geospatial while playing puzzles, blind maps, snakes and stairs and learn in the geospatial aisles.
On October 16, 2019, BIG arrived at Karang Asem Barat 03 Citeureup SDN school with 58 people, MI Arrafiyah Ciomas Bogor with 131 people and 15 students from Salman Alfarisi Cibinong Middle School, with a total of 204 people attending. A happy face when they arrived at BIG's office. They are facilitated by red shirts, bags and drinking water containers that can be refilled, this teaches them to participate in reducing plastic waste.
Nowadays, kids these days prefer watching over reading. The development of technology that spoiled the eye with interesting visualizations is one of BIG considerations in organizing Student days for elementary and junior high school students. The BIG committee presented a puzzle game with a visualization of a map of Indonesia that has various tribes, participants were given 5-10 minutes to arrange the puzzle to form a complete picture. In addition to puzzles, there is also a snake and ladder game in which there are questions about BIG that are light and they can search around BIG.
Not enough there, they can be knowledgeable about spatial geospatial aisles that are displayed in attractive graphics so that children can read and understand what geospatial is. Accompanied by two committees, the students enthusiastically asked what BIG had been doing all this time, and of course, their curiosity about the map was even greater when they saw the Homeland map that became a BIG product. They know so many islands in Indonesia through a blind map game.
The blind map is also displayed with attractive graphics in terms of color and appearance so students can remember and increase their knowledge about the island. As an outdoor activity, students are asked to be free to make a HIG 50 formation by the committee and immortalized with a simulation of a UAV drone. It is hoped that with this concept, geospatial information which, according to them is still foreign to their ears, can be understood through geospatial play. See you on Student Day next year!
