Ransom Everglades sweeps South Florida bee

Ransom Everglades swept the top three individual places and won the top-team award at the South Florida Winter History Bee and Bowl on Jan. 14 at the Ransom Campus. Chris Duyos '17 earned top honors in the bee; Sean Becker '17 claimed second; Alex Lerner '18 got third; and the team of Ryan Sears '18, Ryan Guillen '17, Josh Silberwasser '18 and Lerner won the history bowl.
Ransom Everglades also won the junior varsity bowl, with Justin Lopez '19, Robert Morgan '20, Lucas Miner '20 and Alex Boehm '19 topping the field. Miner won first overall in the JV bee, and Javier Kumar '22 got third. 

An all-middle-school RE team finished third in the JV division. Andres Soto ’21, Vicky Davis ’21, Kumar and Zach Marcus ’22 posted a 6-1 record overall. In the bee individual competition, Marcus finished as one of the top six finalists along with Miner and Kumar.

RE faculty members Mike Becker, Branly Fontaine and Joe Mauro coach the school's academic teams.

The National History Bee and Bowl sponsors the annual South Florida Winter History Bee and Bowl. During the event, some competitors took qualifying exams for the U.S. Geography Olympiad and the U.S. History Bee. Andrew Lorenzen '18 qualified for the U.S. History Bee and Boehm and Morgan qualfied for the JV division.
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.