This year’s winners of the Mary Ellen Henderson schoolwide round of the National Geographic Bee are seventh graders Lindsey Stegenga (back row, center) and Gavin Tomchick (to her right).

Contestants were fifth graders Sigrid Edson, Nicholas Wells and Katie O’Neill; sixth graders Biruk Teshome, Thomas Creed and Josh King; and seventh graders Stegenga, Tomchick and Megan Butler. Fourth grader Blaine Morse (not pictured) was this year’s champion at the Thomas Jefferson Elementary School schoolwide geography bee. (FCCPS Photo/Jeanne Seabridge)