by Tobias Burns | May 28, 2015 | Education
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD – It was only fitting that Lydia Loverin should have been asked to spell “precocious.” The champion speller and seventh-grader at New Lebanon Junior-Senior High School nailed the spelling of that word and of...
by Ramsen Shamon | May 28, 2015 | Education
WASHINGTON — Out of 285 spellers lining up Wednesday for the Scripps National Spelling Bee, only one will be there for the fifth time. That’s Olathe’s Vanya Shivashankar, 13, one of four top spellers from the Kansas City area in the competition. Bee watchers consider...
by Mary Cirincione | May 28, 2015 | Education
WASHINGTON — E-T-Y-M-O-L-O-G-Y. It’s fitting that the lead word for the stage portion of the 88th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee is defined by Merriam-Webster as the explanation of where a word came from. It’s also what top spellers from around the country...
by Yanqing Chen | May 28, 2015 | Education
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD – Michelle Yakubek of Bedford goes on to the semifinals after correctly spelling nirvana and Olmec on Wednesday at the 2015 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. The student at Harmony Science Academy in Euless was calm after her...
by Nick Kariuki & Xiaolan Tang | May 28, 2015 | Education
NATIONAL HARBOR — For Urbana Middle School student Selomi Dayaprema, the Scripps National Spelling Bee marks “the unofficial start of summer.” The 12-year-old had no problem spelling either of her words but fell short of securing one of the 49 semifinal spots that...
by Yinmeng Liu | May 28, 2015 | Education
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD–Vanya Shivashankar, radiating confidence, spelled her way Wednesday into the semifinal round in the 88th Scripps National Spelling Bee. Vanya, 13, an eighth-grader from California Trail Middle School in Olathe, was the first among the four...
