An eighth-grader at Rocky Run Middle School in Chantilly, Nikita said she had been trying since fifth grade to make it into ...

Her commitment paid off when she secured her spot in the national competition for a second time by winning the Boulder Valley Regional Spelling Bee in March. She took first place by correctly spelling ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Florida kids won the last two, will the state see ...

Li, who won second place in the 2023 state bee, said you can't really prepare for the dictionary words, of which there are 470,000. "You just have to ask for the origin and then guess," she said ...

The 97th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee will occur from May 27-29 ... Spellers may not be older than 15 or past the eighth grade, and former champions may not compete again.