The president praised the value of geography and then asked a question during the finals of the 2012 National Geographic Bee, Courtesy of National Geographic Channel.

National Geographic Education staff ask why geo-literacy is important.

National Geographic Education staffers discuss the meaning of the term.

Nokia City Lens (http://nokia.ly/Im17jr) instantly connects you to all of the places you're looking for—and even more importantly—gets you there exactly when and how you want to. Now available on Nokia Betalabs. Just landed in town and looking for a good restaurant? Interested in checking out the local museum or theater? Time to hit the nearest transit station to catch a ride uptown? No longer is finding your chosen destination a hassle—whether you're in a new city or your hometown. Now you can simply launch Nokia City Lens on your phone to easily find all the places you want to go. City Lens instantly reveals what you're looking for on your phone's camera display, no matter if it's down the street or just around the corner. You simply tap your chosen destination on your screen to conveniently access walking directions, make a reservation, or learn more detailed information about the locale.

Video of a sandbox equipped with a Kinect 3D camera and a projector to project a real-time colored topographic map with contour lines onto the sand surface. The sandbox lets virtual water flow over the surface using a GPU-based simulation of the Saint-Venant set of shallow water equations. We (the UC Davis W.M. Keck Center for Active Visualization in the Earth Sciences, http://www.keckcaves.org) built this for an NSF-funded project on informal science education. These AR sandboxes will be set up as hands-on exhibits in science museums, such as the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) or Lawrence Hall of Science. Project home page: http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/SARndbox

Day 1 keynote presented at the 2011 ASUG SBOUC in Orlando, Florida - Learn more at http://blogs.sap.com/analytics.

Senior Manager, Scott Probasco, is at the Imperial War Museum in Cambridge, England demonstrating a 3 year Nokia research project into using TV 'white spaces' for indoor positioning.

Garry Burgess, Bob Hazelton, Tony Howser, and Chris Wilcox show how to add demographic, lifestyle, and community information into apps or websites.

You can now access photo tours which stitch together user contributed photos from around the world to give you a 3D photo scene of a place.

Matt Zook, Ate Poorthuis, and Monica Stephens explain the exciting event they hosted in Manhattan, Iron Sheep. Loosely based off the popular television show, Iron Chef, Iron Sheep was a map hacking event where instead of editable ingredients, teams are given geo-coded data and asked to create "tasty" maps in a fraction of the time a geographer might normally have. Bon Appetit! For more information please visit as.uky.edu or floatingsheep.org