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By Kathie Russo
Special to the Rappahannock News
Students in the lower school at Wakefield Country Day School gathered in early January with their teachers and peers in the school auditorium to participate in Phase I of the 2005 National Geographic Bee, a competition held at schools throughout the United States between November 15, 2004 and January 14, 2005.
The National Geographic Bee consists of three levels of competition: school, state, and national, and is open to students in grades four through eight who are under the age of 15. Each individual school winner is in turn entitled to take a written, multiple-choice Qualifying Ttest, with the highest scorers competing at the state level, and the state winners going on to compete at the national competition.
This is the second year that WCDS has participated in this event.
The National Geographic Society is the organization that provides the questions and answers for the Bee, which is designed to test students’ knowledge on a broad range of geographic topics. Questions cover such material as physical regions, cultures, populations, cultural characteristics, topography, religions, economic characteristics, and map details of different countries.
The participants in Wakefield’s Bee were the two top students in grades four
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