You are invited …

The City of Cape Town, SANBI and the Western Cape Education Department's Khanya Project invite high school learners who enjoy digital design to create the look and feel of the e-Kapa Youth, GIS & Urban Nature Project website.

What is this project about?

The e-Kapa Youth, GIS & Urban Nature Project gives senior high school learners the opportunity to use GPS (Global Positioning Systems) and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) technology while helping the City of Cape Town to monitor and conserve nature. The project aims to provide high school classes with GIS field trips to the nature reserves, and ideas for GIS projects that individuals and small groups of learners can undertake. We are developing this project during 2007 and 2008, and this entails:

• equipping the nature reserves with GPS and GIS technology
• designing projects that schools can assist with
• testing project ideas with teachers and learners
• setting up a website where schools can share and analyse their data.

Who may enter?

Individual Grade 9-12 learners from Cape Town schools

What must we design?

• The layout of the front page of the e-Kapa Youth, GIS & Urban Nature Project website.
• Submit your design as a jpeg file at a resolution of 600 x 800 pixels.
• Your design must be according to the design brief. 

When & where must I submit my entry?

Submit your entry form and the jpeg of your design by email to Martin Cocks at mcocks@uwc.ac.za by 4 pm on Friday 29 August 2008.

Download the entry form

What can I win?

First prize: A GPS-enabled mobile phone 
Second prize: A Garmin e-Trex GPS 
Third prize: A pair of K-Way 10 x 25 Binoculars 

The winning design(s) will be used in the design of the project website.