WASHINGTON: Nihar Janga, an eighth-grader from has won the 31st annual National Geographic GeoBee, an elite test of geographic knowledge. He was also a co-champion of the 2016 Scripps National Spelling Bee and a top-ten finalist in the 2018 GeoBee. He studied in Canyon Ridge Middle School at Austin.
Janga triumphed during a competition at the National Geographic Society headquarters in Washington.
The society also held the first-ever national-level competition of the GeoChallenge, a team competition that asked for innovative solutions to modern problems. This year’s challenge: plastic pollution in our waterways. (Agencies)
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