Carmel 8thgrader competes in national spelling bee No errors yet for Columbus spellers at 5 Minnesotans this week's National Spelling Bee A 6YearOld is Going to The Scripps or AP Profiles the Littlest Tyrant [Kids These Days] Bee's Youngest Ever Parker 14yearold advances semifinals Local kids knocked out of competition Menomonee Falls student eliminated from 2 Central Indiana students compete Photos Faces 50 advance Kingsport speller 11 falls short Holy Trinity final O.C. fares well preliminaries Nashville's contestant Grace Park moves on Witticism first word 85th misses early rounds San Jose boy makes semifinal list begins with 'witticism'

50 Advance to Semifinals of National Spelling Bee Sister of 2009 winner heads semifinalists at National Spelling Bee; 6-year-old doesn't advance Scripps exploring creation of international spelling bee CINCINNATI, May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Signaling the most-dramatic development in spelling bee competition since the National Spelling Bee became a live, nationally televised celebration in 1994, The ... National Spelling Bee field dwindles to 50 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two finalists from last year's Scripps National Spelling Bee and the sister of a past champion were among 50 contestants admitted to the semi-final round after a tense day of competition on Wednesday. A field of 278 young spellers aged 6 to 15 was winnowed down to 50 after they spelled words on stage at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor ... Spelling Bee: The final 50 will compete for $30,000 The youngest competitor this year is 6-year old Lori Anne Madison. The winner of the 85th Scripps National Spelling Bee gets $30,000 in cash. Second place: $2,500. 50 spellers advance to the National Spelling Bee semifinals Fifty young spellers advance to semifinals of the 85th Scripps National Spelling Bee. Spelling champ awaits test results Regional spelling bee winner Marcy Ann Ermitanio, an eighth-grader from Saipan, is shown in this undated photo. / Photo courtesy of the Scripps National Spelling Be Spelling Bee competitors buzz through preliminary round The annual Scripps National Spelling Bee started Wednesday in the Washington area with 278 of the best spellers in the country battling for a $30,000 cash prize, $5,000 scholarship and a Nook Tablet. National Spelling Bee: San Jose boy still in running OXON HILL, Md. (AP) -- In his fifth and final National Spelling Bee, Nicholas Rushlow had little reason to be nervous. The 14-year-old eighth grader from Pickerington, Ohio, strutted confidently to the microphone in a preliminary round on Wednesday morning, high-fiving a fellow competitor who'd National Spelling Bee: San Jose boy gets 2 of 2 in first rounds OXON HILL, Md. (AP) -- In his fifth and final National Spelling Bee, Nicholas Rushlow had little reason to be nervous. Six-year-old girl competes in National Spelling Bee WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 6-year-old girl became the youngest participant ever to compete in the preliminary round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Wednesday, getting off to a successful start by spelling "dirigible." Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, is the youngest contestant to qualify for the spelling bee, according to the Scripps website. She is among 278 competitors ...
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