Archive of past
MyCOE initiatives

MyCOE Constellations: Linking Research, Education, and Extension Outreach

MyCOE brought together constellations of undergraduate students, faculty, and extension personnel in land grant and sea grant universities to jointly conduct community-based projects using geographic tools and technologies for sustainable development. The objective of creating and supporting these nodes of collaboration was to improve linkages among research, education, and extension outreach related to critical sustainability topics and USDA-CSREES National Emphasis Areas, in particular natural resources, forestry, environment, watershed management, conservation, agricultural systems, rural development, technology and land use issues. Learn more about these projects.

Geographic Learningships in the US Gulf and Greater Caribbean Region

A special learning experience that provided the opportunity to gain valuable workforce experience, use geographic knowledge and tools, and engage with local communities on real-world sustainable development issues. Students in the Gulf States of the US exchanged ideas and created an online bilingual peer-network with counterparts in the Greater Caribbean.  Some of the participants traveled to their first international conference to present their work and meet each other face to face.

The Digital Bus and Geography Adventures

MyCOE Friends in the Pacific have teamed up to mobilize geographic learning with the Digital Bus Project. A teacher's workshop led to the creation of a new online adventure

Online Youth Project Gallery

Have you conducted a local sustainable development project? Submit your work to our online gallery. Projects will be reviewed for relevance and posted for public viewing. Select projects may be eligible to receive special recognition."

UNDESD Kickoff Celebration 2005

To celebrate the start of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, MyCOE held a student contest. "Youth from middle school, secondary school, and university levels from around the world submitted maps and descriptions of the local projects on sustainable development issues which they conducted using MyCOE resources.

WSSD Celebration 2002

To celebrate the World Summit for Sustainable Development, the MyCOE partnership was born with a global contest for student projects using geographic tools and concepts. Select projects were showcased at the WSSD in Johannesburg, Africa, March 2002.

View the making of a MyCOE project

Watch a team of girls from the Wolmer School in Jamaica as they explain their urban sustainability mapping project, one of the top ten featured youth submissions showcased at the WSSD in Johannesburg, South Africa.