The Geo-challenge finalists have been announced. Due to conference logistic issues, we had to reduce the number of teams to be invited in the competition, specifically for Geo-wall. The competitions will beorganized from 12 to 4 pm on Friday, March 9th, 2018 at Palm Event Center & Pindo A, a part of  the IFCEE 2018 event. Please join us at the event to encourage participating students. The individual details of each competition will be emailed to the finalists by competition directors. Finalists are requested to strictly follow the timeline. As significant portion of the competitions will happen during the final competition and preliminary ranking was done just to identify the level of travel support, we decided to announce the finalists with the alphabetical order of their institutions. The following are the finalists for the competitions. I, on behalf of Geo-challenge directors (Drs. Bandini, Sleep, and Welker) congratulate the finalists and wish all of them a good luck to the national competition. For those who could not make to the national competition invitation this year, I encourage them to submit their entries next year. Please let me know if any of you have any questions.

Geo-wall

1. California State University, Fullerton

2. Cal Poly, Pomona

3. Cal Poly, san Luis Obispo

4. California State University, Los Angeles

5. Lafayette College

6. Minnesota State University, Mankato

7. San Diego State University

8. University of Arkansas

9. University of California, Davis

10. University of California, Irvine

11. University of California Los Angeles

12. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

13. University of Kansas

14. University of Minnesota, Duluth

15. University of Texas, Arlington

16. University of Texas, Austin

Geo-prediction

1. Arizona State University

2. California State University, Fullerton 1

3. California State University, Fullerton 2

4. Nust Institute (international)

5. University of Arkansas 1

6. University of Arkansas 2

7. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

8. University of Kansas

9. University of Texas Arlington 1

10. University of Texas Arlington 2

11. University of Texas Austin

Geo-poster

1. Arizona State University 1

2. Arizona State University 2

3. Arizona State University 3

4. California State University Fullerton 1

5. California State University Fullerton 2

6. California State University Fullerton 3

7. Lafayette College

8. University of Kansas

9. University of Texas Arlington

10. Washington State University

11. Zhejiang University (international)

Geo-video

1. Arizona State University

2. Lafayette College 1

3. Lafayette College 2

4. University of Texas at Arlington

Regards,

Binod Tiwari