by Marianna Brady | Jun 5, 2017 | Education
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Three-time California State Spelling Bee champion Ananya Vinay of Fresno breezed through Wednesday’s preliminary rounds of the 2017 Scripps National Spelling Bee by correctly spelling “anabolic” and “normative” and is headed to Thursday’s...
by Marianna Brady | Jun 5, 2017 | Education, Featured
Spizzerinctum, offered 12-year-old Ananya Vinay, about her favorite word to spell. And why not for the best in the America, a word worthy of her both in difficulty and in meaning. “It means,” she explained, “the ambition to succeed.” Ananya won the Scripps National...
by Marianna Brady | Jun 5, 2017 | Education
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. — Samhita Kumar’s run in the Scripps National Spelling Bee ended Thursday when she misspelled her third word in the finals. The Winston Churchill Middle School sixth grader was stumped by “duxelles” (sauce with mushrooms and tomato puree) in...
by Marianna Brady | Jun 5, 2017 | Education
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. — Eleven-year-old Samhita Kumar correctly spelled “phosphorus” and “disproportionate” Wednesday in the preliminary rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, but she was surprised when she heard her name called by judges Thursday as one of...
by Marianna Brady | Jun 2, 2017 | Education
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. — Samhita Kumar’s run in the Scripps National Spelling Bee ended Thursday when she misspelled her third word in the finals. The Winston Churchill Middle School sixth grader was stumped by “duxelles” (sauce with mushrooms and tomato puree) in...
