National Geographic will air the final round of the National Geographic Bee Championship in May 2018. Second- and third-place finishers will receive $25,000 and $10,000 college scholarships, respectively. Travel for the trip is provided by Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic Society. The first place national champion will receive a $50,000 college scholarship, a lifetime membership in the National Geographic Society, including a subscription to National Geographic magazine, and an all-expenses-paid Lindblad expedition to the Galapagos Islands aboard the new National Geographic Endeavour II. The National Geographic Society will provide an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., for state winners to participate in the Bee national championship rounds May 20-23, 2018. The school champions, including Kocher, have recently completed a qualifying test up to 100 of the top scores on that test in each state will then be eligible to compete in their state Bee on April 6, 2018.
territories are participating in the 2018 National Geographic Bee. Thousands of schools around the United States and in the five U.S. Jill Binau, Gifted Intervention Specialist with the Southern Ohio Educational Service Center, helped to organize the event. Social Studies teachers Betsy Wellman, Jen Henderson, and Jim Wagner served as judges for the competition. Second row, left to right: school champion Joey Kocher, Owen Trick, Jacob Conard, runner-up Ben Smith, Luke Goodwin, and 7 th grade Social Studies teacher Jen Henderson.)Ĭurt Bradshaw, Coordinator of Gifted Services for the Southern Ohio Educational Service Center, moderated the event. (First row, left to right: 6 th grade Social Studies teacher Betsy Wellman, Malachi O’Leary, Abbey Steed, Micah Wissman, Ethan Johnson, Jarren Gale, and 8 th grade American History teacher Jim Wagner. The school Bee, which students answered questions on geography, was the first round in the 30th annual National Geographic Bee, a geography competition designed to inspire and reward students’ curiosity about the world.
The competition was an intense and suspenseful event for the participants and audience, alike, as both Kocher and Smith answered 23 rounds of questioning in the preliminary, finalists, and championship rounds, battling back and forth through 10 rounds in the final championship. Eighth-grader Ben Smith finished runner-up in the competition. Joey Kocher, a seventh-grader at Clinton-Massie Middle School, won the school competition of the National Geographic Bee and a chance at a $50,000 college scholarship. School finalists then competed in a school-wide Geography Bee competition. School finalists were sixth grader Micah Wissman seventh graders Jarren Gale, Luke Goodwin, Joey Kocher, and Owen Trick and eighth graders Jacob Conard, Ethan Johnson, Malachi O’Leary, Ben Smith, and Abbey Steed. Joey Kocher wins CMMS National Geographic Bee Moves One Step Closer to $50,000 College ScholarshipĬlinton-Massie Middle School Geographic Bee 2017-2018Īll students at Clinton-Massie Middle School recently competed in a National Geographic Bee Preliminary Competition in their Social Studies/American History classes to determine the school’s Top 10 finalists for the school competition.
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