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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]
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 ...
Here’s a word Bruhat Soma can easily spell: champion. The 12-year-old seventh grader from St. Petersburg, Florida emerged victorious at the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee, in National Harbor ...
Jody-Anne Maxwell (born 1986) is from Kingston, Jamaica and was the winner of the 1998 Scripps National Spelling Bee at the age of 12. [1] She made history as the first non-American to win the competition. [2] According to Ebony magazine, Maxwell, who was also the competition's first Black winner, was viewed as a celebrity on her return to ...
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."
Bruhat Soma is the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion after a dramatic tiebreaker between the two top spellers in the event. The 12-year-old was crowned Thursday night after correctly ...