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Organizations from across the surveying and geospatial profession have joined forces with Get Kids into Survey to help bring MONOPOLY: Surveying Edition to life, creating a new way for families to discover just how varied the world of surveying really is.
It takes a lot to build a Monopoly board.
And in the case of MONOPOLY: Surveying Edition, it took a community.
Get Kids into Survey has brought together organizations from across the surveying and geospatial profession to create a game designed to make surveying more visible to children, families and future generations.
The result is MONOPOLY: Surveying Edition: a board that brings together real companies, real technologies and real-world applications of surveying in a format families around the world already know.
From the very beginning, the project was intended to represent far more than one area of surveying.
The profession stretches across construction, infrastructure, mapping, hydrography, land surveying, digital technology, and many other specialist fields. Surveyors can find themselves working on the ground, in the air, beneath the water and increasingly within digital environments.
Capturing that breadth meant bringing the industry with Get Kids into Survey on the journey.
Organizations involved in the project include: RIEGL, NSPS, Trimble, Juliano Associates, ITS Geo Solutions, Subsea7, QK4, TopoDOT Solutions, H&B Surveying and Mapping, Yazel Peebles and Associates, NV5, Dioptra, SmartLab, Monsen Engineering, True Line Surveying, The FIG Foundation, Surveyors Exchange, Surveyors Supply Company Inc, 90 Degree, The Hydrographic Society UK & Ireland, Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc., JLH Land Surveying, GeoTek, Indiana Society for Professional Land Surveyors, and ML Tech.
Together, they have helped Get Kids into Survey turn an ambitious idea into a physical game that celebrates the profession while creating new opportunities to introduce surveying to people outside it.
Each part of the board provides another opportunity for discovery.
Children and families can encounter different surveying careers, see technologies they may never have come across before, and begin to understand how geospatial professionals contribute to the places and infrastructure around them.
The project also demonstrates what can happen when the surveying profession comes together around one shared challenge.
Despite the enormous role geospatial professionals play in the modern world, surveying remains a career many children simply do not encounter while growing up.
For Get Kids into Survey, increasing that visibility early is vital.
“One of the things we love most about this project is just how much of the surveying community is represented on one Monopoly board,” said Elaine Ball, Founder of Get Kids into Survey. “Surveying is an incredibly varied profession, and that can sometimes make explaining it difficult. But here, children can begin to see that variety for themselves. They can discover different people, different technologies, and completely different environments, all connected through surveying. We couldn’t have created something on this scale alone. The organizations involved have helped us represent the profession in a way that is fun, visual and hopefully sparks curiosity in families who may never have thought about surveying before.”
MONOPOLY: Surveying Edition forms part of Get Kids into Survey’s wider mission to inspire the next generation of geospatial professionals through fun, accessible and engaging education. Rather than expecting young people to already understand the profession, the organization aims to create opportunities for them to simply encounter it — because before childrend can consider becoming surveyors, they first need to know that surveying exists.
MONOPOLY: Surveying Edition takes that message somewhere new: the family games table. With pre-orders now open, Get Kids into Survey will continue revealing more of the companies, characters, technology, and stories represented on the Monopoly board ahead of the game’s official release.
MONOPOLY: Surveying Edition is available to pre-order at https://www.getkidsintosurvey.com/surveying-board-game/.
About Get Kids into Survey
Get Kids into Survey is a global initiative dedicated to inspiring the next generation of geospatial professionals. Through free educational resources, educational products, industry collaboration and its worldwide Brand Ambassador community, Get Kids into Survey helps children, teachers, and families discover what surveying is, why it matters and the many career opportunities available across the profession.
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