by Shahzeb Ahmed | Jun 1, 2017 | Education, Featured
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The moment she heard the word Thursday, Charlotte eighth grader Akshra Paimagam knew she was in trouble. This was Round Five of the 90th Scripps National Spelling Bee, being held at the Gaylord Resorts and Convention Center. Paimagam was one of...
by Jingnan Huo | Jun 1, 2017 | Education, Featured
by Jingnan Huo NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. Durham speller Jason Sorin, a fifth grader at Triangle Day School, easily spelled “longevous” and and successfully guessed his way through “accumbent” Wednesday at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, but did not make it to the...
by Jingnan Huo | Jun 1, 2017 | Education, Featured
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland – She had one of the trickiest words — curfuffle. Her brother, mother and father, sitting in the audience at the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Wednesday, cringed when they heard 13-year-old Vasundara Govindarajan of Miami start the...
by Maryam Saleh | Jun 1, 2017 | Education, Featured
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — If Akshra Paimagam was nervous on stage at the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Wednesday, she did not show it. The Charlotte eighth grader breezed through the preliminary rounds of the bee Wednesday, correctly spelling “sorbitol” and...
by Maryam Saleh | Jun 1, 2017 | Education, Featured
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland – Fort Worth eighth grader Will Lourcey aced the spelling of “fallacy” and “Ruritanian” on Wednesday, but that was not enough for him to advance to the finals of the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee. Lourcey, 14, is a student at Trinity...
by Karys Belger | May 16, 2017 | Education
WASHINGTON – The National Geographic Bee featured intense competition from across the country. Karys Belger reports on what it was like for the top ten finalists during the...
