Juneau boy to participate in geographic bee in April
Glacier Valley Elementary School fifth grader Wyatt Nicholson is heading to Anchorage in April for the 2010 Alaska Geographic Bee.
According to a release from National Geographic, bees were held in schools with fourth through eighth-grade students throughout the state to determine each school's winner. School-level winners then took a qualifying test, which they submitted to the National Geographic Society.
"It's a tough test," said Wyatt's extended learning teacher, Geri Mcleod. "It's a pretty big honor."
Wyatt is the son of Pamela and Thomas Nicholson.
His mother said she is "really proud" of him.
"He's into lots of different things," she said. "He's really active."
In each state, the students with the top 100 scores were invited to compete.
The state winner will go to Washington, D.C. for the national finals at the end of May.
The Bee is sponsored by the National Geographic Society, Google and Plum Creek.
How would you do as a Bee contestant? Here are sample questions from the school-level bee:
1) Turkish and Greek are the official languages of an island country located in the Mediterranean Sea. Name this country.
2) Name the European country where a large percentage of the population lives in the Rhine-Ruhr region.
3) Name the cold ocean current that meets the warmer Gulf Stream along the east coast of North America.
4) Fort Ticonderoga, originally built in the 1750s by the French, is located in the Lake George region of which state - Maine or New York?
Answers: 1) Cyprus, 2) Germany, 3) Labrador Current or the Arctic Current 4) New York