Hereford Middle School seventh grader Nicole Tsygan — one of two Baltimore students who earned a spot in the Scripps National Spelling Bee — advanced to the bee’s finals Wednesday evening. Just 41 of the 515 competitors reached this level. One other Marylander, Saketh Sundar from Ellicott City, also advanced …
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Can You Spell Like a Bee Winner?
Here are the winning words from the last 10 years of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. 2007: serrefine 2008: guerdon 2009: Laodicean 2010: stromuhr 2011: cymotrichous 2012: guetapens 2013: knaidel 2014 (tie): stichomythia and feuilleton 2015 (tie): scherenschnitte and nunatek 2016: Feldenkrais Read about a 2017 Catonsville contestant.
Read More »Catonsville Middle Schooler Is Baltimore’s “Spell-ebrity”
Shaheer Ali Imam of Al-Rahmah School represented the Baltimore region in the 2017 Scripps National Spelling Bee this week—for the second time in his 13-year life. How does a good speller become a spelling champion? Hard work. “Three hours a night on a school night,” Shaheer says. He trained with …
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