Canaan Community Academy Fifth Grader Headed to State GeoBee

Silas Eaton is competing at IUPUI on March 27.

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(Canaan, Ind.) - Canaan Community Academy fifth-grader Silas Eaton was named one of the semifinalists eligible to compete in the 2020 National Geographic GeoBee State Competition.

The GeoBee is an academic competition for schools in the United States and its territories, for students in grades four through eight. Nearly 10,000 schools participate annually for a chance to win college scholarships and the glory of being the National Geographic GeoBee Champion.

Eaton is now going to be competing in the contest at IUPUI on March 27.

Winners from the state competition will receive a medal, $1,000 in cash, and a trip to Washington D.C., to represent their state in the National Championship where they will compete for additional awards, including college scholarships.

The second and third place will receive $300 and $100 cash rewards.

The 2020 National Championship will take place May 18-21, 2020, at National Geographic headquarters. The National Champion will receive a $25,000 college scholarship, $1,000 in cash, a lifetime membership in the National Geographic Society

and an all-expenses-paid Lindblad expedition to the Galápagos Islands aboard the National Geographic Endeavour ll. The second-place finisher will receive a $10,000 college scholarship and $1,000 in cash; the student finishing in third place will receive a $5,000 college scholarship and $1,000 in cash, and seven runners-up will each receive $1,000 in cash