Geography bee winner moves on to state finals
January 12, 2009
By Staff
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Pine Lake Middle School sixth-grader Wesley Esko holds a globe he won after winning the school’s geography bee. Contributed
Six Pine Lake Middle School students vied for a chance to shine at the state geography tournament Jan. 7.
Students began practicing in the school’s Geography Club, which met weekly beginning in November, to play geography games, learn about resources and practice answering questions, Karin Daar, a teacher at Pine Lake Middle School, wrote in an e-mail.Students interested in the competition competed in preliminaries Dec. 9, and six participants continued on to the final Jan. 6. After rounds of questions involving current events, tourism, history, recreation, interpretation of maps, and U.S. and world geography, the six contestants were whittled down to just two — Eric Schroeder, an eighth-grader, and Wesley Esko, a sixth-grader.
After three rounds of championship questions, however, Wesley was the last student standing, earning him a chance to take the state written exam. If Wesley scores in the top 100 students with his written exam, he will compete against 99 other students at the state competition April 3. That could earn him a place at the national competition in Washington, D.C., hosted by Alex Trebek, the host of the game show “Jeopardy!”
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