Sam Cole won the Windham Middle School Geography Bee and participated in the State Bee in Farmington last week.
“It was a great competition with more
correct answers,” said local Bee coordinator Julie Anderson. The top 100 kids
in the state based on the written test scores were invited to the state bee for
grades 4 to 8. The winner at the state level goes on to Washington DC for the
National Geography Bee. Cole did well at the State Bee, but did not move on.
At WMS, the competition was stiff
between Cole and Alex Saade. “There were 15 to 20 questions we kept getting
wrong,” Cole said. “There were a bunch of places I’ve never hear of. It was
kind of difficult.”
The questions for the bee could be anything
one might find on a map: Capitals of countries, mountain ranges, history of a
country and cultures.
“He’s a gifted student. He was a very
strong candidate in the bee,” said Anderson.
Cole’s favorite subject is history. “I’d
like to travel to a lot of places someday.” For now, he hasn’t been further
than Florida. “Being a travel writer would be fun,” he said.
The National competition is very
competitive and to be successful the winners keep notebooks of facts, said
Anderson.
Cole’s winning question was: Which
European country which borders France and Italy uses political units called
cantons? The answer: Switzerland.
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