Home-Schooled Teenager’s Worldly Wisdom Pays Off
A 13-year-old home-schooled youth from Minnesota won the 2005 National Geographic Bee on Wednesday.
Nathaniel Cornelius topped young people from across the nation to win a $25,000 college scholarship.
The winning question: “Lake Gatun, an artificial lake that constitutes part of the Panama Canal system, was created by damming which river?”
The answer: Chagres River.
Cornelius, of Cottonwood, represented the Marshall Area Home Educators Assn.
In addition to knowing his way around, he plays piano and classical guitar and enjoys photography.
Runner-up was Karan Takhar, 14, an eighth-grader at Gordon School in East Providence, R.I., who received a $15,000 college scholarship.
Third place and a $10,000 scholarship went to Samuel Brandt, an eighth-grade student at Roosevelt Middle School in Eugene, Ore.
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