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He began participating in spelling bees in sixth grade, training with a nun at his Catholic school. [1] He reached the National Spelling Bee as an eighth grader and won with the word elucubrate. [2] Bailly studied Ancient Greek and Latin, receiving his bachelor's degree from Brown University and his PhD from Cornell University. [3]
[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]
The National Spelling Bee is intense. Over 11 million kids take part in the spelling bee circuit across the country. Eventually, 200 spellers advance to the national stage.
Akash Vukoti (born May 29, 2009) is an American child prodigy, TV personality, and motivational speaker from San Angelo, Texas.He competed for a record 6 times at the Scripps National Spelling Bee [2] and was the first-ever first grader to compete in the bee.
The 94th Scripps National Spelling Bee was a spelling bee that was held at Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. [2] 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 ]
Dev Shah, a 14-year-old boy from Largo, Florida, won the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday, nailing the word "psammophile."
He was the winner of the 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee; [4] an interview on CNN with Kiran Chetry after his win, in which he misspelled scombridae due to the interviewer's pronunciation, later became a viral video. [5] [6] During this time he was a four-time International Math Olympiad medalist, with two gold and two silver medals. [7]