The following came in from mPRm Public Relations:
I thought you might be interested to know that 13 year old Nikhil Desai from Fremont, New Jersey was part of the 10 finalists chosen for National Geographic children’s National Geographic Bee. Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, the contest focuses on important knowledge concerning world geography. The complete finalists are:
* Heather Bledsoe, age 13, Trussville, Alabama
* Nikhil Desai, age 13, Fremont, New Jersey
* Benjamin Geyer, age 14, District of Columbia
* Erik Troske, age 14, Michigan City, Indiana
* William Lee, age 13, Woburn, Massachusetts
* Isaac Pasley, age 14, Columbia, Missouri
* Joseph Perea, age 13, Eureka, Montana
* Akshay Rajagopal, age 11, Lincoln, Nebraska
* Milan Sandhu, age 13, Bedford, New Hampshire
* Taylor Morris, age 13, Swannanoa, North CarolinaHosted by Alex Trebek, the finalists are competing for a $25,000 college scholarship and a lifetime membership to the National Geographic Society. Think you are as smart as these kids? Take our National Geographic Bee quiz at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geobee/today.html
For more information about the National Geography Bee, please visit http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geographybee/
The team here at JerseySmarts.com offers our best wishes to Nikhil Desai in winning that scholarship. Good luck!
Wow, I got big time respect for them! I just took that quiz and scored 3/10.
I just wanted to point out that Nikhil Desai is a resident of Fremont, California, not New Jersey. He attends Challenger School in Newark, California. And I also wanted to say that I did take the quiz from today, yesterday, and even the day before and I averaged 2 questions out of ten. 🙂
That’s because those student are geniuses to make it this far!
Please see the correction here:
http://www.jerseysmarts.com/2008/05/21/correction-new-jersey-not-represented-at-national-geography-bee/
i was at the geobee in 2008 representing north dakota and you forgot to mention chris deritis from your own new jersey thankyou
It was a press release sent to the site for posting.