Tuxedo Park. Local student named National Geographic GeoBee Nee York State competition semifinalist
| 05 May 2020 | 01:52
Lucas Capella
The National Geographic Society named Lucas Capella, an eighth grader at Tuxedo Park School, as one of the semifinalists eligible to compete in the 2020 National Geographic GeoBee State Competition.
This is the second level of the National Geographic GeoBee competition, which is now in its 32nd year. To determine each school champion, GeoBee competitions were held in schools throughout the state with students in the fourth through eighth grades. This year, an estimated 2.4 million students competed in the GeoBee, with 8,661 students becoming school champions.
School champions also took an online qualifying test, which they submitted to the National Geographic Society. Up to 100 of the top-scoring students in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Department of Defense Dependents Schools and U.S. territories were invited to compete in the State GeoBees.
The 2020 National Championship was to take place May 18-21, 2020, at National Geographic headquarters, but after careful consideration, the society made the difficult decision to cancel the 2020 National Geographic GeoBee and GeoChallenge competitions due the the coronavirus outbreak.
Students in grades four through eight from nearly 10,000 schools participate annually for a chance to win college scholarships and the glory of being the National Geographic GeoBee Champion
How would you fare as a National Geographic GeoBee contestant?
At the school GeoBees this year, students had to answer questions like these:
Which state is located west of Lake Huron—Minnesota or Vermont?
Minnesota
Known for the tree nuts resembling deer eyes, which midwestern state is called the Buckeye State—California or Ohio?
Ohio
A savanna elephant’s daily amount of dung contains more than 3,000 seeds. Savanna elephants can be found in Namibia and Mozambique on what continent?
Africa
Volcanic activity under Yellowstone National Park creates great spouts of heated water that erupt out of the ground. These water eruptions are called what—geysers or cyclones?
geysers
Which country does not border the Atlantic Ocean—Moldova, Angola, or Ireland?
Moldova
The ancient Babylonians of Mesopotamia developed an early example of what basic counting machine that is still in use today—abacus or sundial?
abacus
Host of the 1984 Winter Olympics, Sarajevo is the most populous city in which European country that was once a part of Yugoslavia?
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Once the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad, Tacoma is a major port and industrial city in which northwestern state?
Washington
Government designated preserves have helped protect giant tortoises in the Seychelles, a country made up of over one hundred islands located north of Madagascar in what ocean?
Indian Ocean
The Matterhorn is an iconic peak in the Alps on the border between Switzerland and what other country?
Italy