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AZ Finalist | National Geographic Bee 2013


my name is Cameron Dinesh and i am the
winner of the 2013 Arizona State
geography vegan I live in Scottsdale
Arizona Scottsdale is a city east of
Phoenix with over 200,000 residents 1868
the swelling irrigation canal company
which improved canals built by the
Hohokam tribe centuries earlier settled
in what would become scottsdale in the
1880s chaplain Winfield Scott founded
the town orange Dale impressed by the
area he and his brother through many
types of fruit there it was renamed
Scott so in honor of him in 1892 since
then the city has expanded outside
downtown and now has many suburbs in
northern for the city is now the fastest
expanding the Saguaro is a cactus native
to the sonoran desert in Arizona its
blossom as the state flower of Arizona
it can grow up to 45 fee and live up to
150 years the famous American architect
Frank Lloyd Wright well known for its
mid western style architecture built his
winter home here in Scottsdale it is
called Taliesin West he worked here
every winter from 1937 until nineteen
fifty-nine by the way I am proud to
represent Arizona in this National
Geography week because this could be a
once-in-a-lifetime experience
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