Supporters

National Geographic Channel

National Geographic Channel has sponsored the Competition since 1999. This ongoing support has made a significant contribution to the Competition’s aim of helping teachers promote geography education in schools.

National Geographic Channel explores the world, the culture and activities of human and animal life everywhere – a channel all about life, the universe and everything. National Geographic Channel supports classroom learning through an online education hub (www.natgeotv.com.au/education), including educational worksheets and videos linked to selected documentaries.

Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations

The Australian Government, through the Quality Outcomes Program administered by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, has been sponsoring Australia’s participation in the International Geography Olympiads since 2006.

The Department is the lead government agency providing national leadership in education and workplace training, transition to work, and conditions and values in the workplace. It brings together people and services to support the Australian Government’s agenda on education, employment and workplace relations. The Department makes a difference through the stages of an individual’s life: early childhood care and development; quality education at all levels; a skilled workforce with greater participation; safe workplaces and an inclusive society.

Promethean : Lighting the Flame of Learning

Promethean is the Competition’s major prize sponsor for 2012. The top school, based on students’ results, will win a next generation Promethean interactive whiteboard or $6000 of Promethean’s learning technology accessories. Another lucky school will win the same prize by entering the incentive prize promotion.

Promethean's aim is to unlock the potential of human achievement in education and training at all ages around the world. It does so by creating, developing, supplying and supporting leading edge, interactive learning technology and by encouraging the growth of the world's largest online teacher community in this field. In these ways, Promethean is helping bring to life the promise of 21st century learning, improving engagement and results for learners and teachers alike.

Hema Maps

HEMA Maps is providing one of the incentive prizes which schools could win in 2012 – $1000 of the school’s choice of HEMA maps, atlases, guides or globes. HEMA will also be giving prizes to junior winners, and some other high-scoring students in 2012.

The founders of HEMA Maps are adventurers who love maps, and know that the best maps help people discover out-of-the-way places, and more importantly, get back safely. HEMA pioneered GPS field checking of outback roads in 1996 and since then have checked over 250,000 km of outback roads and tracks. HEMA publishes hundreds of map titles of its own and distributes an unequalled range of maps, guides, globes and other related products. No matter where you want to explore, HEMA Maps will get you there…

Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan is providing one of the incentive prizes which schools could win in 2012 – $1000 of the school’s choice of books from Macmillan Education.

Macmillan is one of the largest and best known international publishing houses in the world. Macmillan Education produces high quality print, electronic and web-based resources for primary and secondary schools, and provides both state-based and school-based professional development sessions for teachers. The publishing team works closely with Australia’s best geography authors to create resources that work in Australia’s classrooms. Watch out for their new Australian Curriculum resources for geography, written by Australia’s premier education writers.

Australian Geography Teachers’ Association

The Australian Geography Teachers' Association (AGTA) is one of the two organisations responsible for the Competition. AGTA is providing an incentive prize which schools could win in 2012 – registration fees for two teachers to participate in its National Conference to be held 7-10 January 2013 in Perth.

AGTA is the national organisation of Australia’s state geography teachers’ associations. AGTA seeks to: foster the teaching and learning of geography in Australian schools and enhance awareness of its applications in society; promote and circulate the results of research into geography education; maintain a professional network through which teachers of geography in Australia may express opinions on educational matters; represent the interests of its member affiliates on national education decision making bodies.

Royal Geographical Society of Queensland

The Royal Geographical Society of Queensland (RGSQ) is one of the two organisations responsible for the Competition and looks after its day-to-day management. RGSQ is providing an incentive prize which schools could win in 2012 – either an opportunity for a geography teacher to take part in RGSQ’s next research study in the Northern Territory, or a $1000 contribution to an overnight geography fieldtrip for the school’s students.

RGSQ is a non-profit organization that promotes the study of geography. Since its establishment in 1885, the Society has brought together people from all walks of life who share an interest in geography. The Society stimulates interest in geography through a regular programme of lectures and trips, and through actively supporting geographical education and research.