Release date: April 23, 2003
Contact: Frances Weyand, Director of Media Relations, 770-423-6203 or fweyand@kennesaw.edu
Fourth Annual High School Invitational World Geography Bowl
When:
Friday, April 25, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
The championship round will begin at 2 p.m.
Where:
Burruss Building, Rooms 151 and 152, Kennesaw State University
Who:
Participating schools and school systems:
- Cherokee High, Woodstock High (Cherokee County Schools)
- Grady High (Atlanta Public Schools)
- Hiram High (Paulding County Schools)
- North Cobb High, Pope High, Walton High, Wheeler High (Cobb County Schools)
- Riverwood High (Fulton County Schools)
Sponsors: John Wiley & Sons (geography textbook publishers) and Globular Innovations Inc., developer of Worldwise geography card games
Why:
The competition was developed to stimulate interest in the study of geography
among local high schools, thus counteracting the negative media reports
concerning the geographic knowledge of U.S. students when compared with
their counterparts in other countries. The KSU competition is limited
to ninth-grade world geography students, giving freshmen a chance to represent
their schools in an intellectual competition and possibly bring home a
trophy for their efforts.
KSU Associate Professor of Geography Dr. Harry Trendell said, "We geographers are in the business of expanding horizons and the annual High School Invitational World Geography Bowl is an excellent vehicle for that purpose."
The geography bowl is ponsored by Kennesaw State University's Department of Sociology, Geography, Anthropology and Criminal Justice
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Kennesaw State University is a comprehensive, residential institution with a growing student population of 15,600 from 118 countries. The fifth largest out of 34 institutions in the University System of Georgia, KSU offers 55 undergraduate and graduate degree programs.
