SPARQ Center Director, Kurt Kruger, demonstrated for the SPARQ Board a new tool available to GIS students. Augmented reality sandbox. It physically creates topography models that can be used to simulate an explorer various environmental phenomena, such as flooding and erosion. It came in a kit and was put together by the students. Students are calibrating it now. Calibration is done using the Xbox 360 Kinect sensor. Holding your hand above the sand (like a cloud), you can “make it rain”.