14-year-old Greenville girl becomes SC’s first civics bee champion

Riley Metcalfe will represent the state in the National Civics Bee later this year, the first year all 50 states are participating.

By: Skylar Laird

Outlets: South Carolina Daily Gazette

Published: July 23, 2026

Words: 1,420

Last Updated: 1 week, 3 days ago

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COLUMBIA — The room went silent as seven middle school girls considered the question: What distinguishes intellectual virtues from moral virtues in Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics”?

If that sounds much more difficult than a typical middle school civics course, that’s because it is. The question was one of 20 similar questions the seven would go on to answer as part of a statewide civics championship, some of which stumped even former Gov. David Beasley, who moderated.

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