I took 10

"I'm good, but also really nervous," Yena Park, speller 205, admitted to Dr. Bailly.

"Well, take a deep breath," Dr. Bailly told the Indiana fourth grader.

"I did. I took 10," she said.

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Her word was "protrusile," so made that it can be thrust out. But it proved to be too difficult. She misspelled, and is out.

"Byeee," Yena said into the mic.