Geographic Bee

Oskar participated in his school's Geographic Bee today. This is his fourth time qualifying for his school's geographic bee (which is in fact, every year he's been eligible to participate).  As per usual, he did awesome!  He made it to the last round before it narrowed down to the final three. He said he knew most of the answers for the questions he didn't get, and I believe that to be true. But I suspect that was probably also true for several of the other kids as well.  It's easy for me to believe that your brain overloads a bit when it's your turn. It's a lot of pressure to be answering tough questions in front of an audience.

Having said that, I actually did think some of Oskar's questions were on the trickier side. I won't be specific since that's against the rules, but I'll share some general observations.  In the first round - which he missed - his was the only question I *didn't* know the answer to.  He had it narrowed down two options but picked the wrong one.  Round two was a group question and most of them got it correct, including him.  I didn't know the answer although maybe I would have guessed correctly.  There were several more rounds which he answered correctly.  The question that he finally missed, I was pretty sure of the answer that proved to be correct.  Again he had an excellent guess.  In both of his misses, he picked a spot neighboring the correct answer. So they were educated guesses. But that's still a miss and in this case, two strikes and you're out.

As always, this kid blows me away.  I love his passion for not only Geography but just knowledge in general.  Oskar has a thirst to understand the world on so many levels.  It's pretty awesome.  Proud to be his mom!