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[1] [12] One such speller, Nihar Janga from Austin, Texas, became the youngest champion in the Bee's history when he won the title in 2016 at the age of 11. [13] The 93rd Scripps National Spelling Bee was the first time that an African-American (Zaila Avant-garde) became the champion and only the second time that the champion was a black person.
In 2019, the Spelling Bee ran out of words that might challenge the contestants and ended up having 8 winners. The 2020 National Spelling Bee competition, originally scheduled for May 24, was suspended and later canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [2] [3] [4] This was the first time it had been canceled since 1945. [5]
A spelling bee at an elementary school, with a speller addressing an audience and a judge, with other contestants behind. A spelling bee is a competition in which contestants are asked to spell a broad selection of words, usually with a varying degree of difficulty. To compete, contestants must memorize the spellings of words as written in ...
Notwithstanding efforts to avoid a third year running of inseparable co-winners (see below), Jairam Hathwar and Nihar Janga were declared co-champions after 24 championship rounds. [13] [14] Co-champion Nihar Janga, at age 11, was the first winner since 2002 to win in his first appearance at the national bee. [15]
The bee introduced a new standardized test, conducted prior to the competition, to assess the spellers' collective abilities to aid with the work of the Word List Panel. [22] The bee's Word List Panel granted exclusive access to The Associated Press during the 2023 Bee Week to publicly reveal details about their process, which had been secret ...
The finals of the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee will be televised live beginning at 8 p.m. Thursday. You can watch it over the air, on cable, satellite or online on ION . Show comments
Winners of a nationally recognized spelling bee, such as the Scripps National Spelling Bee or CanSpell National Spelling Bee. Pages in category "Spelling bee champions" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
The finals were held on June 2, 2022, and televised on Ion Television and Bounce TV, marking the first time in 27 years that the Bee was not televised on an ESPN network. [3] The winner of the bee was Harini Logan, an 8th–grade girl from San Antonio, Texas, [4] who won with 21 words spelt correctly during the Bee's first spell-off round. [5] [6]