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Gregory Peterson

Biography

Gregory Peterson says he loves to amass knowledge and he loves to compete. It all started when he was a little boy and his family would play trivia games at dinnertime. “My parents would ask my older sister and I to name lists of things – colors, countries, animals – and we’d go around the table naming them until someone got ‘stumped,’” he remembers. “Because of our nightly trivia games, I kept being fascinated by facts.”

Gregory says he has stayed interested in everything. When he started high school, he signed up for a schedule that was so full he did not have a lunch period. He found his niche his sophomore year when he joined the quiz bowl team. “Here was a place where it actually paid off to know what the capital of Liechtenstein was, or who wrote “Pomp and Circumstance. And they kept score too.”

As a Young Scholar, Gregory has continued to expand his knowledge through jazz, quiz bowl and chess camps, participating in the Presidential Classroom program, and spending a month in Paris. He is entering college ”decidedly undecided” on a major. Gregory says his wish is that he will be able to stay involved in multiple fields all his life.

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