by Xiumei Dong | May 26, 2016 | Education
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Vasundara Govindarajan had already exceeded her family’s high expectations when she made it to the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. But the sixth-grader at the Archimedean Academy in Miami was eliminated Thursday when she...
by Siri Bulusu | May 26, 2016 | Education
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — A flower messed her up. With poise and composure, Eva Vega of Charlotte advanced to the final round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday, but was tripped up when she misspelled the word “cypripedium.” A cypripedium is a type of...
by Xiumei Dong | May 26, 2016 | Education
NATIONAL HARBOR — While she could have gone to the Maryland state math competition, 13-year-old Chloe Johnson decided to pursue spelling instead. And she almost made it to the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. After several attempts to correctly pronounce...
by Nick Zazulia | May 26, 2016 | Education
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – Kids like pirates. But they typically don’t know them by the name “picaroon.” That’s the word that Arlington’s Jacob Williams was asked to spell in the third round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee Wednesday. Unfortunately, he replaced the...
by Kierra Gray | May 26, 2016 | Education
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Alexandra Snyder, a 13-year-old from Albany, New York, made it through two rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee Wednesday, but she didn’t make it to the final 45 spellers still in the competition – felled by an inadequate score on a...
by Siri Bulusu | May 26, 2016 | Education
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — After an admirable show of poise and confidence, 12-year-old Myrtle Beach native Henry Hein was cut from the Scripps National Spelling Bee, despite spelling correctly in the live competition. He just didn’t score high enough on a written...
