Kansas Student Knows Where It’s At
A 15-year-old who attends a six-student church school in Great Bend, Kan., won the first National Geography Bee and a $25,000 college scholarship Friday.
Jack Staddon, a 6-foot-6 eighth-grader, correctly named a flat intermountain area in the central Andes to defeat Michael Shannon, 14, of Reading, Mass. The answer was altiplano.
Shannon will receive a $15,000 scholarship, and Kieu Luu, the third-place winner from Landover, Md., won a $10,000 scholarship. The bee, sponsored by the National Geographic Society, was open to students in grades 4 to 8.
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