by Steve Musal | May 27, 2016 | Education
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — A Folsom, California, teen took third at the 2016 Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night after a hard fight. Snehaa Ganesh Kumar, a 13-year-old eighth grader at Folsom Middle School, missed “usucapion” (a legal term for seizing...
by Brooke Rayford | May 26, 2016 | Topics
Hawaii’s Ameera Waterford talks more about her experience in the final 50 of the Scripps Spelling Bee alongside her younger sister,...
by Marisa Endicott | May 26, 2016 | Education
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Two New York City boys, Srinath Mahankali and Cerulean Ozarow, sat side by side, their fingers tapping and feet and knees bouncing as they waited their turn for a chance at the national spelling bee finals. When the 285 spellers were whittled...
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...
