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The 95th Scripps National Spelling Bee was a spelling bee competition that was held at Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. The 2023 bee welcomed 231 spellers from the United States and its territories, Canada, Ghana, and The Bahamas. After competing in quarterfinal and semi-final rounds [1] on May 30 and ...
By Brendan O'Brien and Steve Gorman. (Reuters) -Dev Shah, a 14-year-old boy from Largo, Florida, won the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday, nailing the word "psammophile," meaning an ...
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. The competition was not held from 1943 to 1945 because of World War II. The 2020 competition was canceled due to concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. [14]
Shah won last year's Bee by correctly spelling "psammophile," which he told Scripps News' Chris Stewart was a "relatively easier" word. Scripps National Spelling Bee 2023 champion Dev Shah shares ...
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]
Check the list of all the winning words from the Scripps National Spelling Bee from its inception in 1925 through 2023.
The 93rd Scripps National Spelling Bee was held at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Bay Lake, Florida. The finals were held on July 8, 2021, and televised on ESPN2 and ESPN. [2] It was won by Zaila Avant-garde, the first African American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee, [1][3][4] and the second black person to do so (after Jody ...
Eli McNair is 13 and an eighth grader from South Middle School in Newburgh. He is speller number 142 in this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee, but if you asked him just a few months ago, Eli ...