Tanya Buckingham, Assistant Director of the UW Cartography Lab in the Geography Department, was the National Coordinator for the 2009 Barbara Petchenik International Map Competition.
A map submitted by students, Landon Parish and Joy Jackson, won for the youngest age group at the competition.
Hundreds of children around the world create maps for the international map competition hosted biannually by the International Cartographic Association.
Buckingham said, "It is always difficult to select only five maps to send to the international exhibit from the more than 100 entries that I receive.
The children had a complicated theme to work with this year: 'Living in a Globalized World'."
The Barbara Petchenik Award was created by the International Cartographic Association (ICA) in 1993 as a memorial for Barbara Petchenik, a past Vice President of the ICA and cartographer who had a lifelong interest in maps for children.
The aim of the award is to promote children's creative representation of the world. 2009 brought the ninth competition held in Santiago, Chile.
This year's entries will be added to the web exhibition (http://children.library.carleton.ca) at Carleton University Library, Ottawa, Canada.