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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 ...
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 ...
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]
1925–1942, 1946–2019, 2021–present. Inaugurated. 1925 ; 99 years ago(1925) Patron (s) The E. W. Scripps Company. Website. www.spellingbee.com. The Scripps National Spelling Bee, formerly the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee and often referred to as the National Spelling Bee or simply “ the Spelling Bee ” in the United States, is ...
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 ...
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.