Competing in the national finals is an impressive accomplishment. For our champion spellers and your families, there is so much information to process in planning your trip to National Harbor, Maryland. The most complete information is available by logging in with your speller credentials by clicking "Login" in the upper right corner of this page. The information below covers some of your most common questions.
In the final regional spelling bee of 2018, Houston is sending its top two spellers from the competition. This year, Pranav Chemudupaty, from Alvin Independent School District, was the champion, and Benjamin Chen, a student at Beaumont Independent School District, was runner-up. Houston is the largest regional competition, with 1,060 enrolled schools.
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Garrett Bryner, an eighth-grader at Mont Harmon Middle School in Price, Utah, is returning for the second time to the national finals. He correctly spelled “Danube” to win the regional spelling bee sponsored by the Southeast Educational Service Center. Thanks to RSVBee, Garrett's brother, Pierce, also will compete, making them the first-ever set of twins to participate at the same time.
I'm back! And greater than ever. I moved schools and won the school spelling bee for the second time in a row and it was at a whole different education. I once again made it to regionals, and made to the finals by correctly jaguar, mongrel, and charlatan. The finals were a bit nerve wracking. I got through the first three rounds with lumpish, carpentry, and relentless. I was then kicked out by misspelling parsonage. But, as luck would have it, there was a new invitational program created by my dream. The national bee.
Dina Miranda, a seventh-grader at Stanford Middle School in Long Beach, California, has earned a trip to the national finals after winning the Los Angeles County Regional Spelling Bee. It was a marathon event that lasted 10 hours with more than 500 words. The championship word for Dina was "grivoiserie."
Nilla Rajan, a seventh-grader at Bishop Flaget School in Chillicothe, Ohio, is returning to the national finals for a second time. She previously competed in 2016, and now she is back with experience, preparation and a new focus. She won the regional spelling bee sponsored by Ohio University's Scripps College of Communication with the word "Mozambique."