Virtual Recognition for Canadian Champion

Friday, May 1, 2020 - 11:11

Final Local Bees

Local spelling bee sponsor, WFCU Credit Union in Ontario, Canada, has taken extra steps to recognize its local champion. Giovanna Patcas won her final local spelling bee on March 8. She was runner-up ...

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#BingetheBee on ESPN

Friday, April 10, 2020 - 10:10

Bee Week

Are you ready to relive some of our favorite spelling bee moments? With no live action sports, ESPN is digging into their archives to find classics from the past. This Sunday, ESPN will air a seven...

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March Buzzes In Like a Bee Across the Country

Monday, March 9, 2020 - 14:35

Final Local Bees

It is Final Local Bee season across the country as spellers put their preparation to the test by competing against other school spelling bee winners. The Scripps National Spelling Bee estimates 11 mil...

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A Flurry of Final Local Bees in February

Tuesday, March 3, 2020 - 08:32

Final Local Bees

It is Final Local Bee season across the country as spellers put their preparation to the test by competing against other school spelling bee winners. The Scripps National Spelling Bee estimates 11 mil...

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Bee Coverage in IL, CA, MI and IN

Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 12:07

Final Local Bees

It is Final Local Bee season across the country as spellers put their preparation to the test by competing against other school spelling bee winners. The Scripps National Spelling Bee estimates 11 mil...

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More winners from OK, KS, NC and SC

Monday, February 17, 2020 - 09:54

Final Local Bees

It is Final Local Bee season across the country as spellers put their preparation to the test by competing against other school spelling bee winners. The Scripps National Spelling Bee estimates 11 mil...

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Final Local Bees Begin in PA, TN, NY and Jamaica

Thursday, February 6, 2020 - 15:18

Final Local Bees

It is Final Local Bee season across the country as spellers put their preparation to the test by competing against other school spelling bee winners. The Scripps National Spelling Bee estimates 11 mil...

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The Scripps Cup(s)

Friday, May 31, 2019 - 02:47

Bee Week

The trophy the eight (!) champion spellers lifted at the end of the Scripps National Spelling Bee looks a little different than in the past. Instead of a traditional trophy, the new ver...

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The octo-champs

Friday, May 31, 2019 - 01:12

Bee Week

It was 12:05 a.m. when Rohan Raja spelled the last correct word of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. At that point, it had been more than an hour since anyone had spelled anything wrong. The resul...

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We have so many champions

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 23:54

Bee Week

Our first champion is Rishik Gandhasri, speller 5. The California seventh grader spelled "auslaut" correctly. "It's great to be here," said Erin Howard, speller 93 and an Alabama eighth grader. ...

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On to round 20

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 23:47

Bee Week

Speller 427, Christopher Serrao, spelled "omphalopsychite," one who stares fixedly at their navel to induce a mystical trance. "I'm still nervous," Christopher said before the fina...

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Not number one

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 23:42

Bee Week

Erin Howard, speller 93, likes having a buffer. Erin was used to being speller 1 in her early years. "Now, I have a sense of how difficult the words in that round are going to be," she said. "I ...

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Try to relax

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 23:39

Bee Week

Abhijay Kodali, speller 407, finished third last year. The Texas sixth grader said said there's more pressure on him this year, but he's just trying to focus on his word. He's excited, he said, and...

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Shoe hound

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 23:36

Bee Week

Speller 307, Shruthika Padhyis a well-known shoe hound and was sporting her new Jordan 11s for Thursday's championship competition.  She spelled "therblig," one of the manual, visual...

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This is fun

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 23:34

Bee Week

"This is fun," Dr. Bailly said to speller 5, Rishik Gandhasri. Rishik said his friends "kind of forgot the whole thing." But it'll be hard to forget this. He spelled "murrain" correctly. ...

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Dallas represents

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 23:23

Bee Week

Sohum Sukhatankar, speller 354, is in his third Bee, but it's his first time in the finals. (He's doing well.) Sohum just spelled "urfirnis" correctly. It's a lustrous paint varying from black to r...

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He did not vomit

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 23:10

Bee Week

"I just sounded like I vomited," said Rohan Raja, speller 462, upon pronouncing his word, "Gaeltacht." It's the Gaelic-speaking or Irish-speaking districts. The Texas seventh grader got it right. ...

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Moments of levity

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 22:59

Bee Week

Erin Howard, speller 93, was thrilled to learn that her word did not have a feminine French ending. "Please say no," she said, when she asked Dr. Bailly about the root. He said it was not. "Than...

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Simone is out

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 22:50

Bee Week

Simone Kaplan, speller 65, is out. Simone, a Florida seventh grader, tied for 10th place last year and 189th in 2017. She's correctly spelled words that include xystus, varsovienne, marae, Stakh...

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Alice is out

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 22:42

Bee Week

Alice Liu, speller 252, is out on "Rassenkreis." It's a species having several types or subdivisions especially when exhibiting a pattern of geographical replacement of one type by another. The Mis...

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