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Boyer wins GTC’s Geographic Bee
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Posted on Jan 19 2012
By Press Release
Cameron Boyer, a sixth-grade student at the Gregorio T. Camacho Elementary School, won the school-level competition of the National Geographic Bee on Jan. 12, 2012, giving him a shot at a $25,000 college scholarship.
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The school-level Bee, where students answered oral questions on geography, was the first round in the 24th annual National Geographic Bee. This year’s Bee is sponsored by Google.
Second and third place winners are sixth graders Miguel Aninon and Martin Camacho. A total of 10 students from grades 4 through 6 competed in the school’s Bee.
The school winners, including Boyer, will now take a written test; up to 100 of the top scorers on that test in each state will then be eligible to compete in their state Bee on March 30, 2012. Competition at this level will be managed differently for the Department of Defense Dependents Schools, the Atlantic territories of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, and the Pacific territories of American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. The top scorers in each of these regions will take a written test to determine their one winner.
The National Geographic Society will provide an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., for state champions and teacher-escorts to particpate in the Bee national championship rounds on May 22-24, 2012. The first-place national winner will receive a $25,000 college scholarship, a lifetime membership in the Society, and a trip to the Galapagos Islands, courtesy of Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic.
“Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek will moderate the national finals on May 24. The program will air on television.
Everyone can test their geography knowledge with the exciting GeoBee Challenge, an online geography quiz at www.nationalgeographic.com/geobee, which poses 10 new questions a day, or by downloading the “National Geographic GeoBee Challenge” app, with more than 1,000 questions culled from past Bees.
The National Geographic Society is one of the world’s largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations. For more information, visit www.nationalgeographic.com.
