On May 18, the history office announced winners of the Geography Bee. Zack Figlin ’27 won first place, Nicholas Sue 2nd, and Elise Kennedy 3rd.
“It was a challenging competition and a hard-fought victory,” organizer Mark Nelson said.
The full field of finalists included Hal Craig, Jack Fener, Zack Figlin, Ben Fischler, Tali Gurule, Riya Iyer, Elise Kennedy, Holden Kim, Sam Krieger, Yari Milakin, Noah Ramsey, Charlie Ross-Settineri and Nicholas Sue.
The GeoBee is a geography quiz competition, where every 8th grader had the chance to win. For each classroom, there was one student that represented it to compete against the other classroom winners during an upcoming 8th grade class meeting.
“I am looking forward to the GeoBee because I enjoy learning about Geography and competing with my fellow classmates.” Ramsey said before competition began. “I take away the fact of knowing more about the world and all the different places to visit.”
Geography Guessing Game
World Civilizations learners compete in trivia challenge about country locations, facts, figures
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About the Contributors
Noah Ramsey ’27 is a first-year Spectrum reporter. Ramsey’s love for journalism and photography derives from his belief that it is important to get factual information out into the world. He greatly enjoys spreading news to different people through journalism and photographing many of the moments of time he writes about. Outside of writing for Spectrum, Ramsey can be seen playing tennis and researching about technology. Through journalism and writing for Spectrum, he hopes to provide truthful details for people in our community about different current events.
“To find what most passionate about, you have to try things you don’t want to do.”
Noah Koo, Reporter
Noah Koo ’27 is a second-year Spectrum reporter.
Koo’s interest in HW Media began in eighth grade with his participation in Spectrum. He wrote numerous articles for The Spectrum, covering a variety of topics. He is now participating in Intro to HW Media class in order to broaden his horizon.
“I am taking this class, due to the fact that this class allows us to join other HW Media-related classes, with my ultimate goal being a broadcast reporter,” Koo said.
Koo’s past report topics were debate and the video game “Geoguesser” popular at the middle school. He would like to continue to report on these, along with his math department beat.