When we heard the exciting news about a 6-year-old contestant being in the National Spelling Bee, the nation was rooting for her.There was a clip of Lori Anne Madison, the youngest person to compete in... full story ![]()
Quintin Beaty will be the youngest participant in The Star Press Spelling Bee this year.
thestarpress.com (2 months and 9 days ago)
Last year, the word "telegnosis" won a Sterling Heights boy, Amulya Parmar, a trip to the 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee. This year, 43 students plan to compete for that prize Saturday during The Detroit News 2013 Spelling Bee at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.
detroitnews.com (2 months and 23 days ago)
Starting this year, spelling bee contestants will have to know both the spelling and meaning of words in order to clinch the championship.
palmbeachpost.com (1 month and 11 days ago)

Yashna Nainani, 13, won the Richmond Regional Spelling Bee at the Library of Virginia this afternoon. The eighth-grader at Chickahominy Middle School in Hanover County won in the 16th round, spelling
timesdispatch.com (2 months and 14 days ago)
A 12-year-old spelling bee contestant is getting a second shot at a county crown after contest administrators admitted to making a big mistake. KMPH reports that Sierra Shoemaker was competing in her school district's spelling bee in Fresno County, California. She was given the word "braille" and spelled it correctly. However, the judge said otherwise. [...]
yahoo.com (2 months and 9 days ago)
Nicole Frische, of Loftis Middle School, won the Chattanooga Times Free Press Regional Spelling Bee for the second year in a row. She will now advance to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., in May.
timesfreepress.com (2 months and 7 days ago)
Ever wonder if those spelling bee kids know the meanings of some of those big words? Now they'll have to prove that they do. Organizers of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Tuesday announced a major change to the format, adding multiple-choice vocabulary tests to the annual competition that crowns the English language's spelling champ.
pjstar.com (1 month and 11 days ago)
It'll take more than spelling to win this year's National Spelling Bee.
foxnews.com (1 month and 12 days ago)
For the first time in the 86-year history of the National Spelling Bee, contestants will have to worry about what the words mean as well as how to spell them.
htrnews.com (1 month and 11 days ago)
Mary Horton will be the third child in her family to compete at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. She won the Orlando Sentinel's 54th annual Spelling Bee this morning by correctly spelling "odograph," an instrument that measures a vehicle's course of travel.
orlandosentinel.com (1 month and 24 days ago)
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