The Iolani School student Kira Lau recently represented Hawai‘i at the 100th Scripps National Spelling Bee, a milestone year ...

Hyderabad: Fresh off his triumph at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in the US, 13-year-old Faizan Zaki reflects on a ...

American, has won the Scripps National Spelling Bee in the US by correctly spelling "éclaircissement." He intends to donate a portion of his $50,000 prize to underprivileged communities in the US and ...

Brian successfully spelled words throughout the first ... Now in eighth grade, he placed 23rd in the National Spelling Bee two years ago, advancing as far as the semifinals before he was knocked ...

Ultimately, his joyful approach made him the Scripps National Spelling Bee champion. The favorite entering the bee after his runner-up finish last year — during which he never misspelled a word in a ...

Spellers can't be older than 15 or past the eighth grade. Then came Vikram ... and he's long past any bitter feelings about how his spelling career ended. “Even if you know every single word in the ...

He has won several online bees that top spellers compete in as preparation, including the Words of Wisdom Spelling Bee and ... have advanced beyond the eighth grade or be older than 15.

It’s certainly not an easy ... the spelling lists, going over vocabulary, doing practice tests.” Rory said he is nervous to begin the preliminary rounds but gave some encouraging words that ...

back to a round of spelling competition. Any speller who correctly spells a word in Round 1 will automatically move to Round 2; if they choose the correct word therein, they will immediately move ...

The Scripps National Spelling Bee is gearing up ... I feel like my strong suit is," says eighth-grade competitor Arya Bhavansikar. "When I'm up there, I just think of it like, you know, math, like how ...