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Tuvya Bergson-Michelson is a 12-year- old 6th grader at The Nueva School in Hillsborough, near San Francisco. He represented California at the 2011 National Geographic Bee. His interests include government, international affairs, politics and baseball statistics. He enjoys cross-country running. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: National Geographic is the …

Lars Nordquist is a 10-year-old 5th grader at St. Albans School. He enjoys reading and looking at maps. The best place he’s visited is Venice, Italy, and he’d like to go to Australia. His interest in geography was stimulated by his 4th-grade teacher, who made the class memorize capitals and …

Jonathon Grunenwald is a 14-year-old 8th grader from Ames, representing Ames Home School Assistance Program. Two of his model rockets won purple ribbons at the county fair. Interests include puppetry, drawing, camping, hiking and canoeing. He’d like to visit all the U.S. national parks. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: …

Christian Boekhout is a 12-year-old 7th grader at Hot Springs Intermediate School in Hot Springs, southwest of Little Rock. He represented Arkansas at the 2011 and 2012 National Geographic Bees. He plays first chair alto saxophone and has participated in the Junior Engineering Olympics for two years. He hopes to …

Kevin Orzada is a 14-year-old 8th grader at The Independence School in Newark, near Wilmington. This year, his Odyssey of the Mind team has advanced to the world finals in May, and his Quiz Bowl team won a spot in the national competition in April. In his free time he …

Leo Díaz is a 12-year-old 7th grader at St John’s School in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He has been on his school’s honor roll every quarter since first grade. He enjoys playing basketball and air hockey and watching NBA games. The best place he’s been is Sequoia National Park; he …

Mark Vanderzee is a 14-year-old 8th grader at George S. Mickelson Middle School in Brookings. He enjoys looking at atlases and geography books, reading and swimming; his swim team has participated in the South Dakota State Swim Meet. If he could be anyone else, he’d be U.S. ambassador to the …

Cameron Danesh is an 11-year-old 6th grader at Mountainside Middle School in Scottsdale. He enjoys reading, playing Minecraft and looking at atlases. He taught himself to read at age 3. He is going to London this summer and looks forward to seeing the famous monuments. What he likes about geography …

Pranit Nanda is a 13-year-old 7th grader at Aurora Quest K-8 School in Aurora, east of Denver. He represented Colorado at the 2012 National Geographic Bee. He’s captain of his school Mathcounts team and a three-time winner of the President’s Award for Academic Excellence. He likes reading and watching game …

Chinmay Murthy is an 11-year-old 5th grader at Paragon Preparatory Middle School in Austin. He plays basketball and tennis and enjoys going on bike rides. He plays the piano and is a Webelos Scout. The best places he’s visited are France, Britain and Ireland; he’d like to go to Papua …