SALISBURY — Sacred Heart seventh-grader A.J. Flynn recently won the school’s annual National Geographic Bee and advanced as to the next level of competition April 6 at the 2018 N.C. National Geographic State Bee.
He is pictured with Principal Tyler Kulp and Father Lucas Rossi, parochial vicar.
He joins 100 of the top-scoring students in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Department of Defense Dependents Schools and U.S. territories invited to compete in the State Bees.
Flynn, the son of David and Rene Flynn, will compete to earn a spot at the National Geographic Bee Championship at National Geographic Society headquarters May 20-23 in Washington, D.C.
The first-place national champion will win a $50,000 college scholarship, a lifetime membership in the Society, and an all-expense-paid Lindblad expedition to the Galapagos Islands aboard the new National Geographic Endeavour II. Second- and third-place finishers will receive $25,000 and $10,000 college scholarships, respectively.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the National Geographic Bee, developed by the National Geographic Society in 1989 in response to concern about the lack of geographic knowledge among young people in the U.S.
— Robin Fisher
WINSTON-SALEM — In Our Lady of Mercy School’s recent spelling bee competition, the winner was sixth-grader Callum Forest, who defended his title as OLM Spelling Bee Champ for the third year in a row.
He then went on to win the Forsyth County Non-Public Schools Spelling Bee Championship for the second year in a row.
Forest’s win advances him to compete in the televised 2018 Winston-Salem Journal regional competition March 18.
He is pictured with Sister Geri Rogers, principal, and Elena Pueschel.
In addition, winners of Our Lady of Mercy School’s recent geography bee were: first place, Khoa (Kenshi) Nguyen; second place, Miller Aho; and third place, Katherine Brown.
— Katrina Capistrano
