Geography Bee Champ-Remembers places because every place has a story

Check you the front page of the Omaha World-Herald Living Section today, Saturday, June 7, 2008. This year's National Geography Bee winner is and 11-year-old boy from Lincoln. It is the cover story on the Living Section of the paper with a big picture and article. The caption under the picture says, "Every physical place in the world, says Aksha Rajagopal, has some kind of story." That is one of the ideas we were just studying about and one of the chapters in the book we read. He talks about one of the ways he remembers is by stories that go with the place and name.