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IN Finalist | National Geographic Bee 2013


hi I’m Shawn rhymes I’m a seventh grader
at Trinity Lutheran School in Crown
Point Indiana
I live in Crown Point Indiana it is the
county seat of Lake County the second
most populous county in Indiana it is
located in Northwest Indiana downtown
Crown Point boasts the 125 year old
courthouse that has a museum in the
interior the museum has historical
artifacts important to Crown Point into
Lake County
kasia’s clay Muhammad Ali Red Grange the
parents of Michael Jackson and Rudolph
Valentino were married in Crown Point
the Crown Point historic jail house is
where the notorious John Dillinger
escaped in 1934 you can take tours to
see the cell that Dillinger escaped from
by carving a gun out of wood
Carnegie Crown Point library first
opened its doors in 1908 because of
rapid advance and technology in the need
for bigger space crumpling had to close
the doors from the original library and
opened the doors to a new library that
opened in October 2012 we live
approximately 30 minutes from the lake
front of Lake Michigan we are also an
hour from Chicago if you were to come to
Northwest Indiana you would want to see
the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
located in a neighboring County and yeah
dunes just a lot to offer visitors you
can hike do forests wander through the
prairies visit amazing tall sand dunes
and hike through the wetlands Indiana
Dunes covers about 15 miles along the
southern point of Lake Michigan
well in first
I gotta love my birthday and I really
enjoyed looking at it and I tried to
learn all the capitals of all the states
in the US then I got an atlas and I
liked reading that because I had tons
more information than a globe does like
beside information like population
figures an area figures and that we also
lived in Europe which really helped my
love of geography because we went to so
many different cities in Europe and I
always want to figure out where they
were and around the city how did you get
different places
I have lived in five different places I
have lived in Philadelphia Pennsylvania
the metro area of Detroit Michigan
around Gary Indiana in Slovakia and in
Serbia
I will go to Cambodia and I would visit
angor wat largest temple complex in the
world and there’s large freshwater like
that largest in Southeast Asia they’re
called Tom myself
I would also go to Ireland because it is
the home of my ancestors and it is very
pretty with rolling house
my favorite fact is that as the Mackinaw
bridge which crosses the Straits of
Mackinac and connects the upper and
lower peninsula Michigan is the third
longest bridge and twelve suspension in
the world and the longest between
Anchorage’s in the Western Hemisphere
and this is my favorite fact because
Michigan is my favorite state
geographic name the only city in bosnia
touch the Adriatic Sea
you
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