Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Tokeneke Elementary School is one of five elementary schools serving children in Kindergarten through fifth grade in Darien, Connecticut, United States. It is a part of the Darien Public Schools system.In May 2007, the "Kids Care Club" at the school raised more than $12,000 for the charity World Vision to build a bore well for clean water in the village of Makungwa, Zambia. To raise the money, students found sponsors for a "Walk for Water" event in which they walked from Hindley School to Weed Beach, filled buckets with water and walked back to Hindley, simulating what millions of people must do to get water.Student Thomas Denham in Betty Steuer's fifth-grade class was Connecticut's 2008 National Geographic Bee champion, winning a globe, $100, some other prizes and an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., for the national contest. Denham won the contest when asked what nation Tuscany was in (Italy). The previous year he placed second in the statewide bee. Previous Darien winners of the state contest were Liam McCarthy (in both 2005 and 2006), and Erik Mengwall (in 1989).The school was first opened in September 1956.. }
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- Tokeneke_School abstract "Tokeneke Elementary School is one of five elementary schools serving children in Kindergarten through fifth grade in Darien, Connecticut, United States. It is a part of the Darien Public Schools system.In May 2007, the "Kids Care Club" at the school raised more than $12,000 for the charity World Vision to build a bore well for clean water in the village of Makungwa, Zambia. To raise the money, students found sponsors for a "Walk for Water" event in which they walked from Hindley School to Weed Beach, filled buckets with water and walked back to Hindley, simulating what millions of people must do to get water.Student Thomas Denham in Betty Steuer's fifth-grade class was Connecticut's 2008 National Geographic Bee champion, winning a globe, $100, some other prizes and an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., for the national contest. Denham won the contest when asked what nation Tuscany was in (Italy). The previous year he placed second in the statewide bee. Previous Darien winners of the state contest were Liam McCarthy (in both 2005 and 2006), and Erik Mengwall (in 1989).The school was first opened in September 1956.".