"Ready?" Dr. Bailly asked Mitchell Robson, speller 114, a Massachusetts eighth grader.
"Yeah, I think -- I think so," he said.
Mitchell gripped the mic, spelled "pentecostys" correctly and nodded when he got it right.
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