The US Geography Olympiad is intended to be the official qualifying competition for US students for the 2013 International Geography Olympiad (aka iGEO).
The United States Geography Olympiad was founded in the summer of 2012 as a new, nationwide competition to test the geography skills of American students and to help foster geography education throughout the United States. The competition aims to reward students who have devoted themselves to studying their world, and its countries and peoples, as a thorough knowledge of geography is essential to being an educated citizen today.
Aside from fostering an appreciation of knowledge of our world, the United States Geography Olympiad is also the official qualifying competition for the International Geography Olympiad, and by competing in it, students in the Varsity Division (i.e. born before July 1, 1997) will have a chance to become members of the first ever American team to attend the iGEO. The 2013 iGEO will be held from July 30-August 5, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan; the members of Team USA are planned to be selected at the National Championships of the United States Geography Olympiad on Friday, April 26, 2013 in Arlington, VA. Read more about us...
The United States Geography Olympiad held its first ever National Championships on Friday, April 26 in Arlington, VA with more than 150 students from across the USA competing. A great time was had by all, and at the conclusion of the competition, Anton Karpovich of IMSA (the Illinois Mathematics and [ Read More ]
Click on the links below for the draws for the 2013 USGO Nationals: (Note – you need to click on the USGO logo next to this post to get to the page where the links are active). Varsity Draws JV Draws
The United States Geography Olympiad (now officially renamed from the US Geography Challenge) is just three days away from its inaugural National Championships! In less than 72 hours, we’ll know the first of our representatives from Team USA for the International Geography Olympiad this summer! Here are the competition draws [ Read More ]
We’ve extended the registration deadline for the US Geography Challenge National Championships to Monday, April 15! Don’t delay signing up, though, since it won’t be extended again. Well over 100 students have already registered for the chance to take on the top geography students from across the nation in our [ Read More ]
As per USGC rules, students can qualify for the National Championships either by finishing in the top 50% of students in their division at the site where they took the Qualifying Exam, or by finishing in the top 50% nationally as of March 18. The Median Scores are posted below (and [ Read More ]
With the inaugural National Championships less than 6 weeks away, we have posted the question distribution for the Multi-Media multiple choice Exam and Geography Quiz Bowl Tournament portions of the National Championships. These can be accessed by clicking on the “Nationals” tab above and scrolling down the page. The distribution for [ Read More ]
While Conrad Oberhaus’s 100 and Karthik Karnik’s 97 remain the top scores so far this year across the USA on a USGC qualifying exam (both from the JV division), Sandeep Subramanian posted the highest Varsity score to date in Arizona on Feb. 23 with a 94! Roughly 300 different Varsity [ Read More ]
So far this year, approximately 400 students throughout the USA and at international schools overseas have taken the United States Geography Challenge Qualifying Exam. Until February 8, no one had received a perfect score on any version of the Qualifying Exam. But on February 9 at our Northern Illinois qualifying [ Read More ]
Congratulations are in order to Karthik Karnik of King Philip Regional High School in Wrentham, MA who scored a 97 on the US Geography Challenge Qualifying Exam (B Set) on January 26 at our Massachusetts State tournament site! His score is the highest of any student on any version of [ Read More ]
The Board of Directors of the International Geography Olympiad (aka iGEO) have officially endorsed the United States Geography Challenge to be the qualifying competition for students from the USA to attend the International Geography Olympiad through 2015! The USGC would like to thank iGEO for this opportunity, and we look [ Read More ]
