Enrolled schools have exclusive online access to the 2016 Classroom Pronouncer Guide and 2016 School Pronouncer Guide as a benefit of enrollment. School spelling bee coordinators may access these guides in the teachers-only section of spellingbee.com. 

Please see our Resources for Students page. You can also contact your teacher or spelling bee coordinator for study materials.

In general terms, the Scripps National Spelling Bee program is open to students who have neither turned 16 nor passed beyond the eighth grade, and who attend schools that are officially enrolled with our program for the current academic year. To review a complete list of our 2026 eligibility requirements, visit spellingbee.com/rules beginning August 19, 2025.

To obtain information about your local spelling bee program, click here and enter your school\\\'s zip code.

School bee coordinators at schools that enroll in the 2016 Scripps National Spelling Bee must log in to spellingbee.com by June 1, 2016 to obtain the Encyclopædia Britannica Prize redemption instructions for their students. The Encyclopædia Britannica Prize must be redeemed by June 30, 2016, and the prize will expire one year after the date of redemption. 

Our prime enrollment period was August 15, 2013 through October 15, 2013, and our late enrollment period was October 16, 2013 through December 13, 2013. Local program sponsors also had the option to extend late enrollment through January 30, 2014.

Teachers and administrators may visit spellingbee.com in late August to enroll schools in the Bee program for the 2014-15 school year.