Faizan Zaki, 13, won the Scripps National Spelling Bee championship on Thursday, May 29 — and says he couldn't have done it ...

"Éclaircissement" was the winning word, but for Faizan Zaki it spelled success. The 7th-grader from Dallas won the Scripps ...

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The Scripps National Spelling Bee celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, and former champions say the bee has changed ...

Indian American youngsters consistently win academic competitions of all sorts. Cultural beliefs about the changeability of ...

A New Berlin student has achieved remarkable success at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, finishing 10th in the national competition.

Indian Americans did it again when Faizan Zaki, a 13-year-old speller from Allen, Texas, won the 2025 Scripps National ...

The bee winner in 1991 at age 13, Lagatta nonetheless struggled adjusting to life outside her rural hometown of Clintonville, Wisconsin — until she got a push from a professor who was a devoted ...

National Spelling Bee Champions Say It Set Them up for Success: 'You Attain a Level of Mastery' Joanne Lagatta arrived at the University of Wisconsin in 1995 with a flawless academic record and an ...

I went in thinking I was a smart kid who had won a National Spelling Bee, and I must be able to compete with the highest-level academic kids. I signed up for a bunch of advanced classes I clearly ...