Fifth grader wins state-level geography bee

CHICOPEE, Mass. (AP) — A student from Joseph Estabrook Elementary School has taken top honors in the 2018 Massachusetts National Geographic State Bee.

Fifth grader Atreya Mallanna will represent Massachusetts in next month's final round in Washington D.C.

The bee, held Friday at Elms College, had over 100 fourth-to eighth-graders competing to make it to the final round in the nation's capital.

Mallanna won a prize of $200, a visual atlas and a trip to compete in Washington, D.C.

The grand prize for the national round will be a $50,000 college scholarship, a lifetime subscription to the magazine and an all-expenses paid expedition to the Galápagos Islands aboard the National Geographic Endeavour ll.