Kaylan Patel reaches Top 10 at bee

The Windermere Prep student was among 54 students competing for the national title.

By Amy Quesinberry
| 9:25 a.m. July 22, 2019

Kaylan Patel made it to the Top 10 at the Geography Bee National Championships.

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Kaylan Patel, a rising eighth-grader at Windermere Preparatory School, placed in the Top 10 in the National Geography Bee National Championship, sponsored by the National Geographic Society and held recently in Washington, D.C.

This year, 2.2 million students started the competition process in December; Kaylan was the Florida representative in D.C.

Kaylan has won the school bee four times and back-to-back 2018 and 2019 Florida state bee championships. Both years, he beat out more than 600,000 students from Florida to represent the state at the competition. Only one student from each state goes to the nationals.
He also received the Dynamic Storyteller Award from the National Geographic Society for his eloquent speaking abilities.

Kaylan is the son of Dr. Niral and Dr. Tejal Patel.

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Amy Quesinberry

Community Editor Amy Quesinberry was born at the old West Orange Memorial Hospital and raised in Winter Garden. Aside from earning her journalism degree from the University of Georgia, she hasn’t strayed too far from her hometown and her three-mile bubble. She grew up reading The Winter Garden Times and knew in the eighth grade she wanted to write for her community newspaper. She has been part of the writing and editing team since 1990.