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Florida 6th-Grader Rishi Nair Wins National Geographic Bee And $50000 College Scholarship

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 26 May, 2016 12:02 PM
    WASHINGTON — A Florida sixth-grader has won the 2016 National Geographic Bee.
     
    Twelve-year-old Rishi Nair of Seffner, Florida, won the top honours Wednesday at the 28th annual Bee in Washington.
     
    Nair clinched the win by correctly answering "Galapagos Islands" to the question: "A new marine sanctuary will protect sharks and other wildlife around Isla Wolf in which archipelago in the Pacific Ocean?"
     
    Nair gets a $50,000 scholarship, a trip to Alaska and Glacier Bay National Park and a lifetime membership in the National Geographic Society
     
     
    Second-place was 14-year-old Saketh Jonnalagadda of Westford, Massachusetts. Third place went to 12-year-old Kapil Nathan of Hoover, Alabama.
     
    The bee has been taped and the final round will be broadcast on National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo WILD at 8 p.m. Friday.

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