http://appchallenge.opengeospatial.org/index.html OGC Student Spatial App Challenge sponsored by Google The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is?challenging students who have software development skills to create new applications that use OGC standards in innovative, interesting and fun ways. For example, the software application can do some or all of the following: - Mash up data from a variety of existing geospatial Web services that provide location data - Provide access to new sources of location data (including, for example, sensors, computer models, webcams, 3D urban models, mobile devices, or spatial databases) to support innovative applications. - Provide access to original new Web services that provide processing capabilities for innovative applications that use new or existing location data. The three applicants to the OGC Student Spatial App Challenge?that best satisfy the competition criteria will receive an an award and the opportunity to have their apps featured on the OGC website and in other media channels. In addition, the first place winner will: - Be sponsored by OGC to receive an award in front of the OGC membership at a quarterly OGC Technical Committee meeting. - Have a dedicated award page on the OGC website featuring the winning application. - Be cited in an OGC press release acknowledging the award. - Receive a Nexus Tablet donated by Google. - Receive, for the student's academic institution, a two-year OGC membership or two-year free renewal if the institution is an existing member. The estimated total value of the prize to be awarded is $1,500 plus round trip travel to the winner's selected OGC TC meeting.?The OGC Map App challenge is open to any university student at the undergraduate or graduate level who is enrolled part or full time as of July 15, 2013. Submissions to the challenge are by individual only. Submitters must be 18 years or older at the time of submission. Applications must be submitted by midnight EST, July 15th, 2013. For registration details, see: http://appchallenge.opengeospatial.org/.