New York City has its first Scripps National Spelling Bee winner in 16 years.
Today's Scripps National Spelling Bee winner would crush the 1992 winner in a spell-off.
The 86th Scripps National Spelling Bee inched toward a conclusion with 11 finalists being eliminated one by one.
She was off by two letters, and that was the end of her fourth and final National Spelling Bee appearance.
Along with the National Endowment for the Arts, the poetry foundation sponsors Poetry Out Loud, a contest similar to the National Spelling Bee.
What is great about the National Spelling Bee is that it provides a safe space for prepubescent kids to meet peers with a similar obsession for words.
Last year her student Trinh Tran won the title of seventh-grade grand champion in the Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest the equivalent of the national spelling bee of handwriting.
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People ask me what it was like to win the National Spelling Bee, but I mostly remember the lights and flashbulbs of the press that followed my victory.
There is a general principle within elite performance systems, including everything from Scripps National Spelling Bee Championships to world-class modern dance companies, scientific research communities and professional sports.
"It doesn't make sense, " said Sanat Mishra, who last year made it to the finals of the South Asian Spelling Bee, but is not competing at the National Spelling Bee.
While this might be someone's first outing in the orthographic Super Bowl, it takes many rounds -- from school bees to local to regional -- to qualify for the National Spelling Bee.
This year, 6-year-old Lori Anne Madison, the youngest speller on record with the Scripps National Spelling Bee, told the Washington Post that she doesn't feel undue pressure during Bee competition.
The 86th Scripps National Spelling Bee inched round-by-round toward a conclusion Thursday night, with 11 finalists remaining from the 281 contenders who arrived to compete for the title of champion speller of the English language.
In addition to unleashing gems like weissnichtwo and humuhumunukunukuapuaa on us, the 281 contestants in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which begins Tuesday, will have to know what the words mean too.
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