The Nebraska Story Map Competition encourages students to use a powerful mapping application called geographic information systems (*GIS) to research and analyze some aspect of Nebraska. Students will showcase their results in a story map. The competition is open to students in high school grades 9-12 or middle school grades 4-8. To compete, students must be under the age of 19 and have not earned a diploma or GED. Each school can form as many teams as they like. A team can consist of one or two students. Each school will select only five teams to enter the Nebraska Story Map Competition. The best 5 high school and 5 best middle school student story map projects in Nebraska will be awarded $100 each. 

*ArcGIS Online is the name of the GIS application students used.