This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Florida kids won the last two, will the state see ...

There will be 12 contestants from Florida among the 243 spellers in the 97th National Spelling Bee, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year (it was skipped three times during World War II ...

Nine spelling bee champions from Michigan will compete against 234 students from across the country in the 100th annual ...

Thirteen-year-old Cecily Dean will represent Tallahassee in the 100th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee. Cecily is a multi ...

There are five students from Northern Virginia competing in the spelling bee. Draven Williams, Vincent Chu, Nikita Ramakrishnan and Nargiza Muzhapaer are all 14-years-old and in the 8th grade, while ...

The Scripps National Spelling Bee won’t be so quick to force spellers into a lightning-round tiebreaker to decide a champion ...

Nikita Ramakrishnan seems like your average eighth grader at Rocky Run Middle School in Fairfax County. She studies for all ...

Her commitment paid off when she secured her spot in the national competition for a second time by winning the Boulder Valley Regional Spelling Bee in March. She took first place by correctly spelling ...

A field of 243 top young spellers will converge on National Harbor, Maryland, from May 27-29 to compete in a historic Scripps ...

An eighth-grader at Rocky Run Middle School in Chantilly, Nikita said she had been trying since fifth grade to make it into the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The closest she had gotten before this ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Scripps National Spelling Bee won’t be so quick ... to challenge an unusually strong group of competitors. The 2020 bee was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic ...