A picture, the old saying goes, is worth a thousand words.
That being the case, we received a large number of great photos with excellent stories behind them for the Statistics2013 Photo Contest.
To review, the Photo Contest was for secondary school students in grades/years 7-12 and was a contest-within-a-contest in that winners were to be selected from each continent (excluding Antarctica). A best overall photo was to be selected from the winning photos from each continent. That best photo would receive a prize of $800 (all prizes U.S. dollars), while $700 in prizes—$350 for first place, $200 for second and $150 for third—would be awarded to the top three place-winners from each continent. The contest theme was: “How statistics advances the wellbeing of people in your country or our global society.”