Five students from Gateway High School’s AIM program competed against 12 other teams in the ESSPA Geography Bowl and earned second place.The ESSPA Geography Bowl measures the student’s knowledge of the geography of various continents with questions related to such items as land forms, water, people, capitals, cities, ports, islands, climate, raw materials, products, languages, etc. Each year, one area of the world is selected for the competition. This year the area was Central and South America. After five rounds of competition, Gateway’s team finished in the number two spot. The team was made up of Eric Pelkey, Will Randall, Kristofer Pomiecko, Vivek Rajkumar, and Awaiz Khan. Eric Pelkey captured the second best individual score and Achal Channarasappa captured the fourth best individual score. Faculty sponsors for the event were Jim Pottinger and Lynn Martin.
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heyy we are o ambassadors too we have done the same thing and trying to make this world a better place and teach them that they are never too young to make a change lolz. i hope that we will reach our goals.... talk to ya later
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