How do cartographers make flat  maps from a spherical earth? We experimented with grapefruit to find out!

And the finished products on  display….

It turns out to be challenging to make a flat map from a spherical object. Afterward, we looked at Mercator Projections, Peter’s Projections, and Robinson Projections, as well as a few that were a bit more radical, like on by Buckminster Fuller that looked a lot like our grapefruit rinds!