After 30 rounds, Joseph Benson spelled his way to another trip to Washington, D.C. The eighth-grader correctly spelled "frivolous" to win the Jackson-Clay County Spelling Bee in Missouri. The competition was made possible by the support of the Mid-Continent and Kansas City public libraries.
Helena Thompson has earned a return trip to the national finals after winning, for the second year in a row, the Harnett County Spelling Bee in Lillington, North Carolina. The eighth-grader from Highland Middle School correctly spelled "perennial" and "rhetoric" to win.
Briana Joseph, an eighth-grader from Fairmont, got an assist from her own hand as she spelled out her winning word — "gopak" —to win the South Central Service Cooperative in Minnesota. She competed with 41 other spellers in the event that lasted nine rounds.
Congratulations to Hemingford High School seventh grader Arielle Stallings, Box Butte County Spelling 2018 Champion! She and the Bobcat Wordcats did HHS proud at Alliance Middle School on January 24, 2018, competing with a total of 21 spellers in front of a spellbound turnout of about 40 spectators. Arielle’s winning word was acacias, spelled correctly after her conquering rendition of labyrinthine.
Congratulations to Hemingford High School seventh grader Arielle Stallings, Box Butte County Spelling 2018 Champion! She and the Bobcat Wordcats did HHS proud at Alliance Middle School on January 24, 2018, competing with a total of 21 spellers in front of a spellbound turnout of about 40 spectators. Arielle's winning word was acacias, spelled correctly after her conquering rendition of labyrinthine.
It took 21 rounds for Calvin Franke, a seventh-grader from Plum Grove Junior High School in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, to earn a championship title and a trip to Washington, D.C. He won the 8th ISC Regional Championship, sponsored by Commonwealth Edison, with "ethology."
It was a record-setting performance for seventh-grader Rebekah Zeigler — her fourth spelling championship at the Lee-Ogle-Whiteside Regional Spelling Bee, sponsored by Sauk Valley Media, in Dixon, Illinois. The Aplington Middle School student had tough competition including her younger brother, Gabe, who finished third. She won with "vamplate."