25th National Geographic Bee

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The 25th National Geographic Bee was held in Washington, D.C. on May 22, 2013, sponsored by the National Geographic Society. This was the final National Geographic Bee that Alex Trebek hosted--at the end of the event, Alex announced that Soledad O'Brien would be next year's moderator.

Twelve-year-old Sathwik Karnik, from Plainville, Massachusetts won the competition, beating out 52 other competitors representing the 50 U.S. states, Pacific territories, and Department of Defense dependent schools.^[1]

2013 state representatives[]

State	Name	School	City/Town	Grade	Notes
Alabama	Christopher Lough	Prattville Christian Academy	Prattville	7th
Alaska	Kenny Petrini	Central Middle School of Science	Anchorage	8th
Arizona	Cameron Danesh	Mountainside Middle School	Scottsdale	6th
Arkansas	Christian Boekhout	Hot Springs Intermediate School	Hot Springs	7th
Atlantic Territories	Leonides Diaz Fuster	Saint John's School	San Juan	7th
California	Tuvya Bergson-Michelson	Nueva School	San Ramon	6th	7th place
Colorado	Pranit Nanda	Aurora Quest K-8	Aurora	7th	10th place
Connecticut	Michael Borecki	Middlesex Middle School	Darien	8th
Delaware	Kevin Orzada		Newark	8th
Department of Defense	Patrick Lewallen		Japan	7th
District of Columbia	Lars Nordquist	St. Albans School	District of Columbia	5th
Florida	Walker Miller		Jacksonville	8th
Georgia	Sanjeev "Ricky" Uppaluri		Alpharetta	5th	3rd place
Hawaii	Andrew Anderton	Island School	Lihue	8th
Idaho	Amrit Singh		Grangeville	7th
Illinois	Conrad Oberhaus	Daniel Wright Junior High School	Lincolnshire	7th	2nd place
Indiana	Sean Ives		Crown Point	7th
Iowa	Jonathan Grunenwald		Ames	8th
Kansas	Preneeta Nalluri	Overland Trail Middle School	Overland Park	6th
Kentucky	Hunter Watkins		Farmington	8th
Louisiana	Cècile Girard		Lake Charles	7th
Maine	Archer Thomas	Bonny Eagle Middle School	Buxton	8th
Maryland	Abhinav Karthikeyan		Damascus	4th
Massachusetts	Sathwik Karnik	King Philip Regional Middle School	Plainville	7th	1st place
Michigan	Neha Middela	Detroit Country Day School	Detroit	6th	9th place
Minnesota	Alexander Conrad	Valley View Middle School	Edina	7th
Mississippi	Jun Chen	Margaret Green Junior High School	Cleveland	8th
Missouri	Aviral Misra		Kansas City	5th
Montana	Grace Rembert		Bozeman	5th
Nebraska	Theodore Jansen		Omaha	5th
Nevada	Nick Vazeen		Las Vegas	8th
New Hampshire	Neelam Sandhu		Bedford	8th	7th place; went on to St. Petersburg, Russia for the International Competition Asha Jain (also a finalist this year) and Gopi Ramanathan of Minnesota from 2012
New Jersey	William DiGrande	Warren Middle School	Warren	8th
New Mexico	Huy Tran	Albuquerque Academy	Albuquerque	7th
New York	Gabriel Straus		Manhattan	7th
North Carolina	Matthew Janson		Charlotte	8th
North Dakota	Luke Bowan		Jamestown	8th
Ohio	Kyle Yu		Westlake	7th
Oklahoma	Matthew Armor		Norman	8th
Oregon	Harish Palani	Stoller Middle School	Portland	7th	5th place
Pacific Territories	Jacob Augelli		Guam	7th
Pennsylvania	Sai Mahit Vaddadi		Mechanicsburg	8th
Rhode Island	Jacob Polatty		North Kingstown	7th
South Carolina	Krish Patel	Pinewood Preparatory School	Summerville	7th
South Dakota	Mark Vanderzee		Brookings	7th
Tennessee	Alexander Wilaniskis		Whitesburg	7th
Texas	Chinmay Murthy		Austin	5th
Utah	Joshua Nkoy	Challenger School	Sandy	8th
Vermont	Tyler Jager		Manchester Center	7th
Virginia	Akhil Rekulapelli	Stone Hill Middle School	Ashburn	7th	4th Place
Washington	Owen Benda	Open Window School	Bellevue	7th
West Virginia	Andrew Christy		Morgantown	7th
Wisconsin	Asha Jain		Minocqua	7th	6th Place; went on to St. Petersburg, Russia for the International Competition with Neelam Sandhu (also a finalist this year) and Gopi Ramanathan of Minnesota from 2012
Wyoming	Garrett Means		Laramie	8th

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