Students compete in county Spelling Bee, Monday

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SpellingBeeDOWNINGTOWN — The county’s top spelling students will compete to win the annual Chester County Spelling Bee, Monday, Feb. 8, as elementary and middle school students from across the county spell words most mortals can only guess at.

The event, which begins at 9:00 a.m., will be streamed live on CCiTV and is a qualifying bee for the Scripps National Spelling Bee. It will be held at the Chester County Intermediate Unit’s Educational Service Center (Entrance B) located at 455 Boot Road in Downingtown.

The Chester County Spelling Bee, which is coordinated by the Chester County Intermediate Unit (CCIU), is open to all students enrolled in a Chester County public, private, parochial or home school in any grade up to and including grade eight, and who has not reached their 15th birthday on or before August 31, 2015.

According to Ashley Boyd, CCIU special events coordinator, each participating school is able to send one student to the Chester County bee who meets the age and grade requirements. 

“Each of the participants is the winner from his or her school’s local spelling bee and each school is permitted to determine its own qualifying structure for its entrant, provided it follows the eligibility requirements,” added Boyd.

The last student standing on stage on February 8 will have earned a trip for two to Washington, D.C. to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee and Bee Week. The champion will also receive: the Samuel Louis Sugarman award certificate for a 2015 United States Mint Proof Set; Webster’s Third New International Dictionary; and a one year subscription to Encyclopedia Britannica Online.

Last year, Great Valley Middle School student Aakash Narayan emerged as the champion. Laura Liu from Valley Forge Middle School placed second and Akhila Yalvigi of Avon Grove Charter School placed third.

The 2016 Chester County Spelling Bee will be streamed live over the Internet via CCiTV at ccitv.cciu.org.

In the event of inclement weather, the snow date is set for Friday, February 19, at the same time and location.

For more information on the Chester County Spelling Bee, please visit www.cciu.org/SpellingBee or contact Ashley Boyd at 484-237-5053.

For directions to the Educational Service Center, please visit www.cciu.org/ESCdirections.

The competing students:

School

Student Name

Avon Grove Charter School

Nathaniel Krinock

Bradford Heights Elementary School

Jillian Osgood

Caln Elementary School

Alison Scheivert

Chadds Ford Elementary School

Vibha Janakiraman

Charles F. Patton Middle School

Saanvi Garg

Chester County Home School Association

Elle Herson

Collegium Charter School

Rohan Rojy

Devon Preparatory School

Zachary Fedyk

Downingtown Middle School

Shreya Iyer

East Fallowfield School

Ava Dellicompagni

East Vincent School

Charlotte Camp

East Ward Elementary School

Ryan Combs

Fred S. Engle Middle School

Finn Allison

French Creek Elementary School

Heather Wagner

Friendship Elementary School

Thomas Wayne

Great Valley Middle School

Aakash Narayan

Hillendale Elementary School

Theodore Eskander

Hopewell Elementary School

Sarah Brown

Kathryn D. Markley Elementary School

Gaurav Sahai

Kennett Middle School

Ella Masciulli

King’s Highway Elementary School

Khaliyah Hampton

Lionville Middle School

April Komal

Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center

Esha Singh

Mary C. Howse School

Vaishnavi Kusumba

North Brandywine Middle School

Tijon Pittman

Octorara Junior High School

Heather Scribner

Octorara Primary Learning Center

Caleb Campbell

Owen J. Roberts Middle School

Brahm Bean

Penn Wood Elementary School

Aditya ‘Neil’ Barbara

Penn’s Grove Middle School

Aleksandra Fetrow

Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School

Jack Verhagen

Phoenixville Area Middle School

Sara Filipovski

Pickering Valley Elementary School

George Liu

Pocopson Elementary School

Riley Griffith

Pope John Paul II Regional Catholic Elementary School

Katherine Detwiler

Rainbow Elementary School

Endia Johnson

Reeceville Elementary School

Mikaylah Conover

Renaissance Academy Charter School

Niral Bangha

Saint Agnes School

Serena Arnold

Saint Norbert School

Blake Laudadio

Saints Peter and Paul

Ryan Doherty

Scott Middle School

Tristan DiBerardino

Shamona Creek Elementary School

Lineesha Kamana

South Brandywine Middle School

Matthew Shumate

Springton Manor Elementary School

Matthew Beebe

St. Elizabeth School

Isabelle Mesiarik

St. Patrick School

Molly Coghan

Stetson Middle School

Knox Hambleton

Sugartown Elementary School

Krishna Doraisamy 

Tredyffrin/Easttown Middle School

John Marsala

Uwchlan Hills Elementary School

Alexa Fulton

Valley Forge Middle School

Svara Mazumder

Villa Maria Academy

Jordi DeJong

West Chester Christian School

Joseph Gingery

West Vincent Elementary School

Bella Patel

 

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