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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 ...
Fifth grader Jasmine Perez from Bayview Elementary School spells a word during the 5th round of the Miami Herald Broward County Spelling Bee. D.A. Varela/dvarela@miamiherald.com
[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 spelling bee doesn't just show off young kids' brain power. It also brings us cool things like the #spellfie . In 2014, that trended on Twitter and encouraged people watching the Bee to take a ...
The Scripps National Spelling Bee has drawn attention after its approved list of study words for third-graders looking to compete in the upcoming spelling competition was shared online. Study ...
[13] Although the Bee's rules only anticipate up to a three-way tie, [14] officials began planning for the contingency of more winners earlier in the day due to the performances in earlier rounds. On the other hand, the founder of the South Asian Spelling Bee suggested the Bee's finalist words simply were not hard enough. [15] [16]