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  • KinderUni 2019 with GIScience

    At Saturday the 23rd of March 2019, it was time again for very young researchers being introduced to GIScience. Melanie Eckle, Martin Hilljegerdes, Sven Lautenbach, Katharina Przybill, Leonie Schuchardt and Vivien Zahs introduced 16 highly motivated kids into GIScience as part of the KinderUni 2019. After an overview and an introduction into desktop mapping and…

  • GIScience at Kinderuni

    A GIScience Heidelberg team (Melanie Eckle, Katharina Przybill, Vivien Zahs, Martin Hilljegerdes and Sven Lautenbach) takes part in the Kinderuni 2019 coming Saturday. Our aim is to introduce giscience methods in a playful and hands-on way to the participating kids. We will introduce remote mapping, 3d pointclouds and much more in a scavenger hunt –…

  • Exploring Geography with the Geographers of Tomorrow- Kinderuni Heidelberg at GIScience

    For the fourth time, GIScience/HeiGIT supported the Kinderuni of Heidelberg University. Last Saturday, 03.03.2018, interested children between 9-12 were invited to join members of the group and learn about the various kinds of work of geographers, and current projects at GIScience. After providing an overview of geography and different kinds of geodata, the young participants…

  • GIScience in practice during the KinderUni Heidelberg

    On Saturday, 18.03.2017, the Neuenheimer Feld of the University Heidelberg was the area of interest for children participating in the GIScience KinderUni workshop at the Institute of Geography “MapSwipe und uMap – Mach‘ mit beim Mappen an PC, Tablet und Smartphone”. After an introduction about Geography and Geodata in general, they could do some mapping…

  • Children experiencing GIScience at the KinderUni Heidelberg

    On Saturday, 07.02.2015, the Neuenheimer Feld of the University Heidelberg was the area of interest for new “mappers” of the KinderUni workshop at the Institute of Geography. After an introduction about OpenStreetMap, the children between the age of 9-12 years were able to go out and do some mapping themselves. Equipped with GPS devices and…

  • GIScience at the KinderUni: OpenStreetMap for kids

    Children between the age of 9-12 years have the opportunity to attend a practical workshop at the Institute of Geography within the framework of the KinderUni Heidelberg (Young University) on Saturday, 07.02.2015. In this workshop “OpenStreetMap- die offene Weltkarte. Mach’ mit und werde ein Mapper!” the pupils will get to know OpenStreetMap and Citizen Science…

  • Young Mappers: Practical OSM Intro for Children at “KinderUni” Heidelberg

    OpenStreetmap for young pupils We organize a practical workshop for children between the age of 9 and 12 years within the “kids university” at Heidelberg University. The workshop will be on Saturaday 15.03.2014 at the department of Geography and the title is “Navigieren mit der offenen Weltkarte – OpenStreetMap“. It provides an introduction to Crowdsoucing…

  • Children Searching for MH370 & OpenStreetMap Workshop at Young University Heidelberg

    On Saturday March 13th we gave an introduction to OpenStreetMap to 18 pupils participating in the KinderUni (Young University) Heidelberg. The computer pool of the Department of Geography was crowded with kids between 8 and 14 years of age. As a motivation the intro started with a typcial – and very actual – crowdsourcing task…