The names of winners of the National Geographic Bee championship were announced on May 2, 2014, in Washington, USA. The first prize was awarded to Indian-American student Akhil Rekulapelli. Second prize was grabbed by Ameya Mujumdar from Florida and third place was secured by California's Tuvya Bergson-Michelson.

The 50,000 US dollar college scholarship was given to Akhil, the winner of the National Geographic Bee Championship. Also, he won a trip to the Galapagos Islands with National Geographic's Lindblad Expeditions.
Akhil comes from Virginia and he began with a School Bee competition in Ashburn. He advanced to the national championship after learning about regional and state geography bees.

The National Geographic Society sponsors the National Geographic Bee, an annual geography contest. Since 1989, the contest is held every year and invites participants from the fourth through eighth grade studying in American schools.

This year, the finals of the Geographic Bee at the National Geographic Society in Washington have been won by a teen boy from Sterling, Virginia. Akhil said he wants to study at Stanford University and become a surgeon.

"I probably want to be the head of a department at a hospital, try to graduate at the top of my class, but I think, right now, this is probably the biggest accomplishment I'll ever achieve in probably 20, 30 years", said Akhil.

Rekulapelli emerged as the winner of this year's contest after defeating nine other finalists by answering all three questions correctly in a one-on-one showdown.

The first prize of the National Geographic Bee competition was won by an Indian-origin 12 year-old Sathwik Karnik, of Massachusetts, last year. The competition has been dominated by Indian-American students in recent years and this year's win has only helped in continuing the trend. Moreover, half of the top 10 competitors in this year's Geographic Bee were Indians.