March 21, 2005
Clark University to host National Geographic Bee State Finals April 1
WORCESTER, MA -- Fourth- through eighth-grade students representing over 80 different towns and cities in Massachusetts will compete in the state final of the National Geographic Bee, from 8 a.m. to noon, Friday, April 1, in the Daniels Theater in Atwood Hall at Clark University (registration will be from 8-8:30 a.m.). The final round will begin at 10:30 a.m. The awards presentation will be at 11:30 a.m.
Clark University President John Bassett will give the opening address at 8:30 a.m. Dorothy Verheyen, a high school teacher from Quabbin District in Barre, will moderate the final round.
More than one hundred students who have already successfully faced school-level and qualifying competitions will vie for the state championship, a $100 prize and an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., for the national finals on May 24-25. Schools of the state winners will receive Educational Insights' GeoSafari game. Both the second and third place students will also receive cash prizes, and all three will receive World Globes.
For more information, contact Clark University's Teachers Center for Global Studies at 508-793-7696.
The National Geographic Society developed the National Geographic Bee in 1989 in response to concern for the lack of geographic knowledge among young people in the United States. To learn more about the Geo Bee, you can visit the following online: www.nationalgeographic.com/geographybee.
Clark University is a private, co-educational liberal-arts research university with 2,000 undergraduate and 600 graduate students. Since its founding in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in the United States, Clark has challenged convention with innovative programs such as the International Studies Stream, the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the five-year BA/MA programs with the fifth year tuition free for eligible students.
Jane Salerno
Assistant Director, Media Relations
Clark University
(508) 793-7554
jsalerno@clarku.edu
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