The 20 students will compete Saturday to determine who goes to the national spelling bee.

Rodriguez, 13, secured a spot at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., after spelling "sauerkraut" correctly ...

The Scripps National Spelling Bee started in 1925, and we've got our Kern County contestant for its 100th year. One student prepares for an un-bee-lievable competition in Washington D.C.

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The whiz kid is moving on to national competitions for both, securing spots in the Thermo Fisher Junior Innovators Challenge ...

The top spellers from Jefferson and Harrison counties faced off in the 40th Herald-Star Jefferson/Harrison County Regional ...

CPS students, grades first through eighth, competed in the 2025 Citywide Spelling Bee Championship at Marie Curie Metropolitan High School on March 13, 2025. Winner Beatriz Whitford-Rodriguez, ...

Caia Caouette, a Westminster Elementary School student, said she is excited to represent the community at the Scripps ...

The winner of the Dallas tournament was Faizan Saki, a 7th grader at Rice Middle School in Plano. Avishka Dudala, a 7th ...

Even decades later, some can recall the exact word that knocked them out of their school spelling bee. Share your word and/or story with us in our survey inside the article.

Harper Cox, an eighth-grader from Robious Middle School in Chesterfield, won the 51st Richmond regional spelling bee Wednesday after correctly spelling Taurus.