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Vanya was the first sibling of a previous winner to win; her sister Kavya won in 2009. Vanya Shivashankar from Olathe, Kansas (in her fifth appearance at the Bee) and Gokul Venkatachalam from Chesterfield, Missouri (who finished third the prior year ) won the bee, making a total of thirteenth of the past seventeen bees up to and including it to ...
Of the 11, ten had previously made it to the National Spelling Bee. [11] Among the eleven finalists was 11-year-old Vanya Shivashankar, whose older sister won Scripps previously. [3] She was the youngest of the 11 finalists. [12] About ten minutes into the final, Nikitha Chandran of Florida misspelled pathognomonic and was eliminated.
The Scripps National Spelling Bee (formerly the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee and commonly called the National Spelling Bee) is an annual spelling bee held in the United States. The competition began in 1925, [ 1 ] and was initially organized by The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky , until the Scripps Howard Broadcasting Company ...
The structure of the spelling bee has undergone plenty of changes over time, but over the past three years under executive director Corrie Lo ... Rare is a speller like Vanya Shivashankar ...
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The 2010 competition's youngest participant, at 8 years old, was Vanya Shivashankar, sister of the 2009 winner Kavya Shivashankar. The spellers ranged in age from 8 to 15 years old, with 80% being between 12 and 14 years old (inclusive).
Vanya Shivashankar of Olathe, Kansas, the other champion, tied for runner up at SASB behind Gokul in 2014. [5] 6th grader Shourav Dasari from Spring, Texas was the champion in 2015 with the winning word "psocoptera" (he went on to win the North South Foundation Senior Spelling Bee in the same year).