Owen Fleck, a sixth grader at Meadow Glade Adventist Elementary School in Battle Ground, Washington, won the school’s geography bee competition on Jan. 15, 2021. With pandemic restrictions in place, students participated via Zoom videoconferencing this year.
For decades, the school participated in the annual National Geographic Bee. Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and community members gathered to cheer on the contestants. This year, the pandemic canceled the national bee.