18th National Geographic Bee
2006 State Champions

18th National Geographic Bee

Section Title: 2006 State Champions
Table Section Text: None

State	Winner's Name	Grade	School	City/Town	Notes

Alabama	Lowell Van Ness	8th	Bumpus Middle School	Hoover

Alaska	Andrew Lee	7th	Interior Distance Education of Alaska	Anchorage

Arizona	Kelsey Schilperoort	8th	Heritage Christian Home Educators	Prescott	Top 10 finalist

Arkansas	Devin Matthews	6th	Lake Area Homeschool Association	Drasco

California	Ryland Lu	8th	Pressman Academy	Los Angeles

Colorado	Autumn Hughes	6th	Homeschooled	Wheat Ridge	Top 10 finalist

Connecticut	Liam McCarthy	8th	Middlesex Middle School	Darien

Delaware	Matthew Heitmann	8th	Gunning Bedford Middle School	New Castle

Department of Defense	Husain Mogri	8th	Bahrain School	Bahrain

District of Columbia	Benjamin Geyer	6th	British School of Washington	Washington, D.C.

Florida	John Kim	7th	Oslo Middle School	Vero Beach

Georgia	Yeshwanth Kandimalla	8th	Simpson Middle School	Marietta	Third place

Hawaii	Guthrie Angeles	6th	Kaleiopuu Elementary School	Waipahu

Idaho	Ryan Bovard	7th	Jennifer Junior High School	Lewiston

Illinois	Bonny Jain	8th	Woodrow Wilson Middle School	Moline	2006 champion

Indiana	Jonathan Hielkema	7th	Highland Christian School	Highland

Iowa	Drew Coffin	8th	Northwest Junior High School	Coralville	Top 10 finalist

Kansas	Suneil Iyer	6th	Havencroft Elementary School	Olathe	Top 10 finalist

Kentucky	Matt Hensley	8th	Beaumont Middle School	Lexington

Louisiana	Lee Winkler	5th	Kehoe-France School	Metairie

Maine	Alexander Homer	8th	Ellsworth Middle School	Ellsworth

Maryland	James Plamondon	8th	St. John Regional Catholic School	Frederick

Massachusetts	Krishnan Chandra	8th	West Middle School	Andover	Top 10 finalist

Michigan	Matthew Vengalil	8th	Parcells Middle School	Grosse Pointe Woods	Top 10 finalist

Minnesota	Simon Smedberg	8th	Jefferson Community School	Minneapolis

Mississippi	Taide Ding	5th	Central Elementary School	Oxford

Missouri	Christopher Winston	7th	Crestview Middle School	Ellisville

Montana	Hannah Goodman	7th	Helena Area Christian Home Educators	Helena

Nebraska	Preston Bradley	8th	Lux Middle School	Lincoln

Nevada	Paige dePolo	7th	Little Flower School	Reno	Top 10 finalist

New Hampshire	Neeraj Sirdeshmukh	8th	Fairgrounds Middle School	Nashua	Second Place

New Jersey	Evan Meltzer	8th	Central Middle School	Stirling

New Mexico	Luis Baca	6th	Albuquerque Academy	Albuquerque

New York	Jonathan Katz	8th	Scarsdale Middle School	Scarsdale

North Carolina	Michael Narup	8th	Myrtle Grove Middle School	Wilmington

North Dakota	Conrad Eggers	8th	Horizon Middle School	Bismarck

Ohio	Nirbhay Jain	7th	Ottawa Hills Junior High School	Toledo

Oklahoma	Anthony Gonzalez	8th	Centennial Middle School	Broken Arrow

Oregon	Michael Ling	6th	Meadow Park Middle School	Beaverton

Pacific Territories	Ian Farley	7th	South Pacific Academy	Pago Pago

Pennsylvania	Michael Luo	8th	Eagle View Middle School	Mechanicsburg

Puerto Rico	Francisco Vargas	7th	St. John's School	San Juan

Rhode Island	Laura Kulm	8th	Archie Cole Middle School	East Greenwich

South Carolina	Andrew Brill	8th	Anderson County Homeschoolers	Anderson

South Dakota	Joseph Knofczynski	6th	Georgia Morse Middle School	Pierre

Tennessee	Mark Arildsen	6th	University School of Nashville	Nashville

Texas	Jiawei Li	7th	Beck Junior High	Katy

Utah	Jeffrey Bennett	8th	Midvale Middle School	Midvale

Vermont	Lucas Earl	8th	Randolph Union Jr./Sr. High School	Randolph

Virginia	José Antonio de la Peña	7th	Families in Support of Home Education	Burke

Virgin Islands	Sean Marin	8th	St. Croix Country Day School	St. Croix

Washington	Caitlin Snaring	7th	Family Learning Center	Redmond

West Virginia	Joshua Hamrick	8th	Webster Springs Middle School	Webster Springs

Wisconsin	Oliver Buchino	8th	Marshall Middle School	Marshall

Wyoming	James Mothersbaugh	6th	Park Elementary School	Casper

Sentence(s)

The 3rd-place winner, Yeshwanth Kandimalla of Marietta, Georgia.

final_sentence: The 3rd-place winner, Yeshwanth Kandimalla of Marietta, Georgia.