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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.
Contestants in the musical-comedy play The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which ran on Broadway starting in 2005, are competing for a spot in the National Spelling Bee. [32] The 2013 film Bad Words revolves around a forty-year-old eighth grade dropout (Jason Bateman) attempting to win a fictional equivalent of the SNSB. [33]
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]
An eighth-grader from Westminster Christian School will compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Qualifiers from Richland, Morrow and Crawford counties competed Thursday night in the Tri-County Spelling Bee. Highland eighth grader clinches Tri-County Spelling Bee by spelling 'kelpies' Skip to ...
Students from Deer Chase Elementary and A.R. Johnson won the Richmond County Spelling Bee while Hephzibah Middle and C.T. Walker students placed 2nd. Eighth- and third-graders named top spellers ...
Pages in category "Scripps National Spelling Bee competitions" The following 95 pages are in this category, out of 95 total. ... 8th Scripps National Spelling Bee;
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 ...