Four-time speller Vanya Shivashankar (Speller 90), who has been coming to the Bee since she was four along with her sister, 2009 champion Vanya, correctly spelled "elepidote" to stay in the Bee.
Vanya is a seventh grader from Olathe, Kansas. She tied for 10th place in 2012 and fifth place last year.
Elepidote means lacking small, scurfy scales.
