Morrison wins Holy Family Geography Bee

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Neighbors | Submitted.This year's participants and classroom champions (pictured left to right) are Allison Christopher, Christopher Masternick, Christopher Lewis, Kieran Burk, Olivia Morrison (winner), Joe Kelty (runner-up and last year's school winner), Paul Graziano and Kara Okular.

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Neighbors | Submitted.Holy Family School's history and geography instructor (left) Linda Taylor, Geography Bee winner Olivia Morrison (center) and Holy Family School's Principal, Kathleen Stoops (right) take a picture after the Geographic Bee.

Eighth-grader Olivia Morrison will represent Holy Family School in the next level of the National Geographic Bee after winning the school-level bee at Holy Family.

The school-level bee included answering oral questions on geography and was the first round of the 24th annual National Geographic Bee. The 2012 bee, for students in grades six through eight in thousands of schools across the country, is sponsored by Google.

Morrison will advance to the next level of competition, which is a written examination, to determine state competitors in Columbus. All school winners are eligible to win the national championship and its first prize, a $25,000 college scholarship, at the national competition May 22-24 in Washington, D.C. Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek will moderate the national finals on May 24.