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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.
Prior to the 2025 edition of the Bee, spellers had access to a 500-word study list in which all of the words from Round Three were picked out of named the Preliminaries Study Guide. In the past, before the advent of the Preliminaries Study Guide, Round Three followed the same format as Round Two's spelling round, but each contestant's word was ...
Check the list of all the winning words from the Scripps National Spelling Bee from its inception in 1925 through 2023.
Bruhat Soma, 12, of Florida won the 96th Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night after defeating all seven other finalists and beating his final competitor in the Bee’s second-ever spell-off.
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 ...
“Despondent is the right word,” Dev said. Dev, a 14-year-old from Largo, Florida, in the Tampa Bay area, first competed at the national bee in 2019, then had his spelling career interrupted.
In April 2013, shortly before the Bee, organizers announced that the preliminary test would now include multiple-choice vocabulary questions. While met with criticism by past contestants for deviating from the concept of a spelling bee, organizers indicated that the change was made to help avert perceptions that the competition was based solely on memorization skills (as had been showcased by ...
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 ...