27th National Geographic Bee
2015 state representatives
The state representatives from each of the 50 U.S. states, Atlantic territories, Pacific territories, and Department of Defense dependents schools was determined on March 27, 2015 at the state level competitions.

27th National Geographic Bee

Section Title: 2015 state representatives
Table Section Text: The state representatives from each of the 50 U.S. states, Atlantic territories, Pacific territories, and Department of Defense dependents schools was determined on March 27, 2015 at the state level competitions.

State	Name	School	City/Town	Grade	Place

Alabama	Kapil Nathan	Mount Laurel Elementary School	Birmingham	5th	T-9th

Alaska	Ben Ng	Floyd Dryden Middle School	Juneau	7th

Arizona	Cameron Danesh	On Track Academy	Scottsdale	8th

Arkansas	Sojas Wagle	South West Junior High School	Springdale	8th	3rd

Puerto Rico United States Virgin Islands Atlantic Territories	Christopher Sharpless	Antilles School	Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands	8th

California	Madhavan Krishnan	Sam H. Lawson Middle School	Cupertino	6th

Colorado	William Jacob (Jake) Hofgard	Louisville Middle School	Louisville	7th

Connecticut	Alexander Koutsoukos	Middlebrook Middle School	Wilton	7th

Delaware	Rohan Kanchana	Newark Charter School	Newark	6th

-	Ethan Cooper	Menwith Hill Elementary/High School	Menwith Hill, United Kingdom	8th

District of Columbia	Jacob Wall	British School of Washington	District of Columbia	6th

Florida	Rishi Nair	Lincoln Magnet School	Plant City	5th

Georgia	Vibhav Kanyadan	The Walker School	Marietta	7th

Hawaii	Mika Ishii	Kaimuki Middle School	Honolulu	7th

Idaho	Nicholas Monahan	Payette Lakes Middle School	McCall	6th	7th

Illinois	Alexandru Grindeanu	Gower Middle School	Burr Ridge	8th

Indiana	Thomas Gatewood	Western Middle School	Russiaville	8th

Iowa	Patrick Taylor	Northwest Junior High School	Coralville	7th	T-5th

Kansas	Chinmay Patil	California Trail Middle School	Olathe	7th

Kentucky	Pranav Kanmadikar	Meyzeek Middle School	Louisville	6th

Louisiana	Ajaya Tummala	Caddo Middle Magnet School	Shreveport	8th

Maine	Matthew Chase	Wells Junior High School	Wells	8th

Maryland	Abhinav Karthikeyan	Clearspring Elementary School	Damascus	6th	T-5th

Massachusetts	Inwook (Lucy) Chae	Charles E. Brown Middle School	Newton Center	7th	8th

Michigan	Shriya Yarlagadda	Grand Blanc East Middle School	Grand Blanc	6th	2nd

Minnesota	Shreyas Varathan	Shakopee Area Catholic School	Shakopee	8th	T-9th

Mississippi	Ian Espy	St. Andrews Episcopal School	Ridgeland	8th

Missouri	Nikhil Krishnan	Rockwood South Middle School	Fenton	7th

Montana	Grace Rembert	Sacajawea Middle School	Bozeman	7th

Nebraska	Brendan Pennington	Prairie Lane Elementary School	Omaha	6th

Nevada	Brian Montes	Adobe Middle School	Elko	8th

New Hampshire	Issac Stearns	Kearsarge Regional Middle School	North Sutton	7th

New Jersey	Karan Menon	John Adams Middle School	Edison	8th	1st

New Mexico	Lakshay Sood	Manzano Day School	Albuquerque	4th

New York	Arnav Patra	Heim Middle School	Williamsville	7th

North Carolina	Ian Garnto	West Alexander Middle School	Taylorsville	8th

North Dakota	Sean Ness	Valley Middle School	Grand Forks	6th

Ohio	Suyash Dixit	Shananan Middle School	Lewis Center	8th

Oklahoma	Grant Talkington	Brink Junior High School	Oklahoma City	7th

Oregon	Ashwin Sivakumar	Oregon Episcopal School	Portland	5th

American Samoa Guam Northern Mariana Islands Pacific Territories	Ethan Thomas Storie	Bishop Baumgartner Memorial Catholic School	Sinajana	8th

Pennsylvania	Tejas Badgujar	Hampton Middle School	Allison Park	8th	4th

Rhode Island	Eli Fulton	Rhode Island of Home Educators (Home School)	Rumford	7th

South Carolina	Nicholas Gringat	St Anne's School	Rockhill	8th

South Dakota	Damian Hierrera	Dakota Valley Middle School	North Sioux City	8th

Tennessee	John Webster	Evangelical Christian School Macon	Cordova	7th

Texas	Joseph Afuso	Bishop Garriga Middle School	Corpus Christi	8th

Utah	Gauri Garg	Bear River Charter School	North Logan	8th

Vermont	David Liebowitz	Weybridge Elementary School	Weybridge	6th

Virginia	Alexander Perdue	Andrew Lewis Middle School	Salem	8th

Washington	Nick Harrington	Lakeside Middle School	Seattle	8th

West Virginia	Hunter Midcap	St. Michael Parrish School	Wheeling	6th

Wisconsin	Joshua Frank	Fall River School	Fall River	7th

Wyoming	Annika Coberly	Upton Middle School	Upton	8th

Sentence(s)

Finishing in 4th place was Tejas Badgujar of Allison Park, Pennsylvania.
Tejas Badgujar of Allison Park, Pennsylvania finished in 4th place.
Tejas Badgujar from Allison Park, Pennsylvania finished in 4th place.

final_sentence: Finishing in 4th place was Tejas Badgujar of Allison Park, Pennsylvania.
final_sentence: Tejas Badgujar of Allison Park, Pennsylvania finished in 4th place.
final_sentence: Tejas Badgujar from Allison Park, Pennsylvania finished in 4th place.