MyCOE Program Goals

The vision of the organizers of My Community, Our Earth is to build a geographically literate generation able to use this knowledge in their everyday lives to bring about true sustainable development.

MyCOE offers the opportunity for students and international leaders to discover and address real issues in their communities and around the world. The objectives of the program are to

• Support individual projects at the middle school, secondary school, and university levels to advance geographic learning and to help demonstrate various approaches to sustainable development.
• Provide students with the necessary technical resources to learn about sustainable development issues and present them to international leaders.
• Raise awareness of the importance of geography and GIS as effective instruments for sustainable development to students, communities, policy makers, decision makers, and others.
• Bring the concepts promoted by international efforts, such as the World Summit on Sustainable Development. to local, grassroots levels.
• Recognize the innovation and creativity of our youth toward building a more sustainable future through exhibition of projects at important regional and international venues.

Whether digital tools, such as GIS software, or more traditional manual methods, such as hand-drawn maps and charts, are used to complete the project, all students around the world can participate in this geographic learning experience through a special series of programs.