State Geography Bee

Tow Bethlehem area students have qualified to compete in the 2018 Pennsylvania National Geographic Bee on April 6 in Harrisburg for the second level of the 30-year-old competition.

Fourth through eighth grade students bees were held to determine each school champions, who then took a qualifying test.

Up to 100 of the top-scoring students were invited to the state contests. Local qualifiers, with a chance to move on to the national competition, are Gianna Guarasi, grade six, Moravian Academy Middle School, and Joseph Duffy, grade eight, St. Anne School, both in Bethlehem.

Each state champion receives $200, the National Geographic Visual Atlas of the World, 2nd Edition and a trip to Washington, D.C., to represent their state in the National Geographic Bee Championship, held May 20-23 at the society’s headquarters.

The national champion receives a $50,000 college scholarship, a lifetime membership in the Society, including a subscription to National Geographic magazine, and an all-expenses-paid expedition to the Galápagos Islands aboard the new National Geographic Endeavour ll.

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