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Wednesday, February 15, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
The Nugget Newspaper Crossword
By Jacqueline E. Mathews, Tribune News Service
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Tiffany Tisdel and Deb Riehle celebrate Teague Wessel’s Geobee success.
Fifth-grader wins
middle school Geobee
By Erin Borla
Correspondent
Fifth-grade student Teague
Wessel is the Sisters Middle
School Geographic Bee
Champion. He recently tested
for the regional champion-
ship. If Wessel is in the top
100 students in the region
he will attend the State event
held in Salem.
The National Geographic
Bee is an annual competition
organized by the National
Geographic Society, designed
to inspire and reward stu-
dents’ curiosity about the
world. Students from 10,000
schools across the United
States compete in the 2017
National Geographic Bee
for a chance to win college
scholarships.
Wessel says he was excited
to win the first time in the
competition.
“My favorite thing is
learning about the terrain on
earth, like mountains,” he
said. “It was cool to learn
how the continents move.”
Fifth-grade teacher Tiffany
Tisdel worked to have
fifth- and sixth-grade students
at Sisters Middle School com-
pete this year. Just fifth-grad-
ers competed last year.
Students competed in a
written and verbal test, and the
top 10 from each grade com-
peted for the school’s title.
The winning query at
SMS’s event was, “name the
country where the endangered
snow leopard lives.”
“I love it (the GeoBee)
because it helps students see
where we sit in the world,”
says Tisdel.
Her students prepare by
doing weekly geography les-
sons using printed atlases.
“They (the atlases) are
getting harder to find every
year,” she says. “They keep
going out of print. Something
about looking at a map, it
helps develop a sense of
place.”
Next year Tisdel hopes to
include fourth and seventh
grades and add in the eighth
grade the following year.
“I think others should par-
ticipate because geography
can be important later in life,”
Wessel said.
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