Google announced last month that seven colleges won a competition that had students creating three-dimensional models of their campuses in Google Earth, the company’s mapping Web site. Out of 350 entrants, the winners were: Purdue University, Concordia University’s Loyola Campus, Stanford University, Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Dartmouth College, and the University of Minnesota.
The Dartmouth team of students said the project entailed taking more than a thousand photographs of campus buildings. Using SketchUp, Google’s 3D-modeling software, they made digital images of the buildings. All contestants were required to use SketchUp.
Stanford formed a course for the contest. Students met two days a week for two hours each day. Two students served as the instructors of the class. —Andrea L. Foster
