Tyler Moran, 6th grader, wins Park View's schoolwide geography bee

By Jen Cowart
Posted 1/18/17

By JEN COWART On Wednesday, January 11, Park View Middle School held the final competition in their school-wide geography bee. The event consisted of the representatives from each team who had won at their team level. For the sixth grade, the student

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Tyler Moran, 6th grader, wins Park View's schoolwide geography bee

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On Wednesday, January 11, Park View Middle School held the final competition in their school-wide geography bee. The event consisted of the representatives from each team who had won at their team level. For the sixth grade, the student representatives were Madeline Baxter, Pablo Cabrera, and Tyler Moran. The seventh-grade contestants were Alex Handy, Stephanie Santos, and Joanne Wu, and in the eighth-grade the representatives were Patrick Maguire, Tyler McKeon and Jason Yao. PVMS faculty member Ron Voccio was the moderator for the event and judges were Effie Hantzopoulos, Ann Marie Torres, and Joe Valletta. Social studies team teachers brought their classes down to the auditorium to watch the event and support their peers. The students and staff in the audience had to be absolutely silent during the geography bee. Voccio said that each year, four million students compete in the National Geographic geography bee. The national winner of the competition will win a $50,000 scholarship and a trip.

For each round, he read the questions aloud and students had 15 seconds to answer. The students could ask twice for a clarification for each question and are eliminated after two wrong answers in a row. The championship round was between the last two finalists.

The first set of questions included questions about the United States that were answered out loud. The second round required written answers and by the end, Baxter, Santos and Wu were eliminated. Handy and Maguire were eliminated in the third round. When the final championship round began, the final two students, Moran and Cabrera, both sixth-graders, were competing with a clean slate. The students were given 15 seconds to write down their answers, and the one who correctly answered the most from a set of three questions would be the school champion. The audience sat silently, on the edge of their seats as the competition continued. By the end of the round, Moran was declared champion and Cabrera was first runner up. Moran will go on to compete at the next level for his chance at the national title.

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