Karan S. Takhar
The three-member United States team, which included Indian American,Son of Amrita and Gurpratap Takhar, Karan S Takhar, 14, a resident of North Attleboro, Massachusetts, who studies in Rhode Island, won the seventh National Geographic World Championship held in Budapest, Hungary.
Karan, an eighth-grader at the Gordon School in East Providence, Rhode Island, won the second prize in the US National Geographic Bee. The other members of the US team were Jesse R Weinberg, 14, of Coral Gables, Florida, and Andrew T Wojtanik, 15, of Overland Park, Kansas.
In an intense competition of travel and geography knowledge, Karan Takhar from North Attleboro, Mass., topped more than 50,000 of his peers to take the national title in the fourth annual AAA Travel High School Challenge.
Karan took home a $25,000 scholarship after winning the individual, single-elimination competition. The second place individual competition winner, Akshay Buddiga from Colorado Springs, Colo., received a $15,000 scholarship. Tied for third were Matthew Alexander, Pepper Pike, Ohio, and Alexander King, Newcastle, Wash., who split the $10,000 third-place scholarship.
The AAA Travel High School Challenge was developed to build high school students’ travel knowledge and geographic literacy, while creating awareness of career opportunities in the travel and tourism industry.
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