Tag: geography bee

Geo-Bee Wrap Up

Well, my step daughter didn’t win today.  She did not make it to the final round.  She was asked eight questions and she got three of them right.  Not good enough to pass the preliminaries, but plenty good enough to prove how totally awesome she is.

While she was out of the auditorium competing, they played a video of last year’s national finals.  Of all the questions asked to each of the 10 finalists I got exactly one correct.  These questions are hard.

One item of note.  Among the 10 national finalists from last year, one was a seventh grade girl from New Hampshire.  This year that girl is, obviously, an eighth grader.  We believe she was in my step daughter’s preliminary group.  I’m not making excuses, but I am looking toward the future.  She got there this year as a sixth grader.  She’s got two more cracks at this.  I hope she sticks with it.

Between now and then though, Ms Black Belt and young Mr Brown Belt are in a karate tournament tomorrow.  Butts will be kicked.

I am so proud I can’t even describe it.

Waiting

My step daughter is currently competing in the preliminary round of the geo-bee state finals. There are five groups. Two kids from each group make the final round. We are not allowed to watch the preliminary round which means I have no clue how much ass she is kicking. I need info!

Geography

Today is a big day. My step daughter is competing in the state finals for the National Geographic Middle School Geography Bee. We are all going to be there cheering her on. I am so proud of her I could spontaneously combust. She’s only in sixth grade, and she beat a bunch of really smart sixth, seventh, and eight graders in order to earn her spot in the final. I can’t wait to see how she does today.

Wish my step daughter Good Luck!

It’s Celebration Time!

Tonight was HUGE!

My step daughter won her school’s geography bee!  Congratulations!!!

I swear I am so proud of and happy for her that I could freakin’ explode!  She’s only in sixth grade and was competing against seventh and eighth graders and she totally freakin’ WON!

10 kids made the finals, one showed up 20 minutes late.  What was up with that?  It was double elimination, but two kids were required to make it to the championship round, and some one had to clearly finish third.  When the pool was down to five, one kid got the question right and the other four got it wrong, including my step daughter.  She looked crushed when she missed the question, but then she realized that the four kids who were eliminated were getting a new life!  Those four kids had to keep going until some one clearly made the championship round, where they would face the one kid who got the question right.  So they went into sudden death with four kids.  And on it went.  They asked a ton of questions before some one took a shot in the dark with an answer of Australia (I was 100% sure the answer was South Africa, but that’s why she’s the champ and I am the chump) and got it correct!  My step daughter!!!  She advanced to the finals of the finals.

The championship round was three questions.  Whoever got the most correct answers would win.  Wouldn’t you know it?  They tied!  Back to sudden death.  We were getting close to the point where the judges were going to run out of questions before an extremely confident answer of Istanbul was given and a champion of the school was crowned.  My step daughter!!!

The sixth grader triumphed over the older kids to take the victory!  Now later in the school year she gets to go to the States.  If she wins there, the Nationals are in Washington, DC!

I am so proud I am going to burst!  She did an amazing job!  CONGRATULATIONS!!!  WOOOOHOOOO!!!!