Windermere Prep Fifth Grader Named Geography Bee Champion

Those who qualified to compete were: (front row, from left): Giulio Evangelisti, Grant Peyton, Andrew Kane, Lucas Cacas , Jessica Lee, Buddy Furstace, Noah Hoffman, Nick Russo, Jared Hoffman, Brad Prevel; (back row) WPS Social Studies teacher Gary Kurlancheek, Matt Gourgues, Lauren Stone, Christine Prevel, Zac Gobetz, Andrew Rothrock, Logan Valentine, and Bianca Trifoi.

Windermere Prep Fifth Grader Buddy Furstace was recently named school champion in the annual National Geographic Bee. Eighth grader Lauren Stone was the runner up in the geography competition.

Students in grades four through eight qualified to compete by scoring high on the National Geographic School Qualifying test. The contest to determine the school championship was a Round robin competition.