"Ok, here it goes," said speller 114, Mitchell Robson.
He spelled "formatore" correctly, and was thrilled to get it right. "Yeesss!!" he said, with a double fist pump, and ran back to his seat.
The Massachusetts eighth grader is in his third bee. So far in the round, no one has misspelled.
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