Lower Dauphin Middle School recently held its geography bee. After 13 rounds designed to test students' geographical knowledge, the competition came down to two eighth-graders. Adrian Olweiler and Peter Otto sat face-to-face on the school's stage. Four feet apart, they were given three questions whose answers were to be written on white boards and shown to the judges simultaneously.
After three championship questions, Peter was declared the school winner. For his efforts, he received a medal and the right to add his name to the school's list of previous champions. A few weeks after the bee, he took the online qualifying exam and will hear in March if his score was high enough to make it to the state bee on Friday, March 27.
To make it to the championship rounds, the boys navigated seven preliminary rounds with topics like states, states' nicknames, wild places, world civilizations, and cities of the world. After the preliminaries, the field was narrowed from 20 participants to eight.
These eight finalists competed for an additional six rounds in topics like oceans, continents, map skills, and countries of the world. In the last finals round, eighth-grader Sammy Garcia and seventh-grader William Harhaj were knocked out and declared co-finishers for third place. Then Adrian and Peter went to the finals after a short intermission.
Johnathon Breininger, middle school assistant principal, served as moderator for the geography bee.
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