King David Victory Park’s geography whiz kid
VICTORY PARK – A learner, Adam Bertoldi, recently won at this year's Geography Olympiad.
King David Victory Park’s Adam Bertoldi is the king of the hill, after he placed 1st in the country in the 2021 Geography Olympiad.
For his win, Bertoldi walked away with an Esri GIS course worth R10 000. This is described as a geographic information systems (GIS) used to create spatial pictures of data in the form of maps, globes, reports, and charts.
Marketing officer for the school, Nirvana Rogers, congratulated the learner who participated in the first round of this year’s South African National Geography Olympiad which took place on May 18.
Round two, a written task, was held on June 23 where about 2 231 learners from across the country took part in which they had to do a research project.
Adam submitted a geography project on the ‘Gulags of the Soviet Union’. According to History.Com, the Gulag was a system of forced labour camps established during Joseph Stalin’s long reign as dictator of the Soviet Union.
The site explained at its height, the Gulag network included hundreds of labour camps that held anywhere from 2 000 to 10 000 people each with conditions at the Gulag being brutal – prisoners could be required to work up to 14 hours a day, often in extreme weather.
Adam’s submission was internationally assessed and was found to be extremely impressive.
