School district holds geography bee
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EVANSTON — Davis Middle School eight grader Aidan McGuire won a hard-fought battle on Wednesday, Jan. 17, to claim the title of District Geography Bee Champion. The district bee featured the top finishers from all four Evanston elementary schools and Davis Middle School facing off answering questions on both United States and world geography.
Although the district-level competition was strictly for bragging rights, as Uinta Meadows Elementary Principal and question reader Jerrod Dastrup explained, that didn’t stop the competitors from giving it their all. Multiple tie-breaker questions were necessary to narrow the group of 15 to 10 and eventually to the two competitors remaining in the championship round.
McGuire and fellow DMS student seventh-grader Emily Sawyer were the final two standing, a situation that exactly mirrored the DMS school-wide bee held the previous week.
Students competing from DMS included champion McGuire, second-place finisher Sawyer and third-place winner eighth-grader Aidan Jacketta, who finished fourth in the district bee.
Aspen Elementary was represented by champion Mija Bradley and fellow top three school finishers Aaron Lewis and Hailee Tooley.
Clark Elememtary champion was David Butler, second went to Kolby Nelson, third was Easton Williams, fourth place went to Luke Guild, and fifth went to fourth-grader Sheridan Hatch. North winners were champion Cooper Sanchez, who came in third in the district competition. North second-place finisher was Karter Moore and third-place winner was Blair Sanchez.
Uinta Meadows Elementary champion was Marrissa Wolfe, who came in fifth in the district competition. UME second place was claimed by Kya Coles, third by Rubi Ibarra, fourth by Brooklyn Larsen and fifth by Macie Johnstone.
The champion from each school will take a written test to determine if he or she is eligible to compete in the Wyoming State Geographic Bee on April 6, in Casper. The top 100 scorers in each state are invited to compete in the statewide bees, with each state’s winner invited to compete in Washington, D.C. for the National Geographic Bee from May 20-23.
