TURNER – Lucy Knowlton has been named a Maine Geographic Bee semifinalist by the National Geographic Society.

Knowlton, daughter of Rebecca Webber and Thomas Knowlton, is an eighth-grader at Tripp Middle School.

She has been notified by the National Geographic Society that she is a semifinalists eligible to compete in the 2008 Maine Geographic Bee.

Bees were held in schools with fourth- through eighth-grade students throughout the state to determine each school’s winner. School-level winners then took a qualifying test, which they submitted to the National Geographic Society. Students with the top 100 scores are invited to compete at the state level.

The state bee will be held at the Abromson Education Center, University of Southern Maine, Portland, on Friday, April 4.

The state winner will receive $100, a globe and a trip to Washington, D.C., where he/she will represent Maine in the national finals at the National Geographic Society headquarters, May 20 and 21. The national winner will receive a $25,000 college scholarship.