It would have been a great story, but it wasn’t to be—Lori Anne Madison, the six-year-old Virginian that became the youngest speller in the history of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, didn’t make it past the bee’s preliminary rounds yesterday.
by DCist contributor Catherine McCarthy Anamika Veeramani wants to attend Harvard and become a cardiovascular surgeon one day. Her propensity for the medical sciences certainly served her well Friday night at the Scripps National Spelling Bee as she correctly spelled “stromuhr” — a device that measures the amount and speed of blood flowing through an artery — to become the 2010 National Champion. Medical terms proved to be dream makers and heart breakers for several…
Photo of winner Kavya Shivashankar by Jeff Martin Written by DCist contributor Elisabeth Meinecke Can You Spell L-a-o-d-i-c-e-a-n? That’s the word that won Kavya Shivashankar, a 13-year-old eighth grader from Olathe, Kansas, $30,000 (among other goodies) Thursday at the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee. In her fourth appearance at The Bee, Kavya beat out ten other spelling gurus in Thursday’s finals to become 2009 Champion. Tim Ruiter, the youngest of the finalists at age…
Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It’s been a busy week across the Ist-A-Verse, and here’s a smattering of what’s been going on. In Gothamist’s neck of the woods, they found out that many things are possible: A man caught a 40+ pound fish off the Rockaways and took it home on the subway. Graffiti…
Via Best Week Ever, CNN’s Kyra Phillips Kiran Chetry learns that interviewing kids is the toughest job in news the hard way. It doesn’t help that her interviewee, Evan O’Dorney, the winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee held here in D.C. last week, seems to be a particularly tough nut to crack. If watching a truly uncomfortable situation makes you cringe more than smile, you might want to skip this one….
Evan O’Dorney, a 13-year-old from Danville, Calif., became the 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion last night. His winning word was “serrefine” — a noun describing small forceps used for approximating the edges of a wound — which he successfully spelled after a long, tense final showdown with Nate Gartke of Spruce Grove, Alberta. Gartke had hoped to become the first Canadian to win the bee. If anyone out there watched the last few rounds…
Today a select group of the world’s wordiest tweens take the stage at the annual lexicon smackdown known as the National Spelling Bee. Almost 300 students will spend the next two days at the Grand Hyatt on H St. competing in written and oral tests of their spelling skills, culminating in Thursday’s final round, to be aired nationwide on ABC. The Examiner has a profile of one of the circuit’s best-known competitors, facing his…
MONDAY No, he didn’t make An Inconvenient Truth, but climate change policy wonks will probably turn out to throw Joseph Romm a bone as he signs Hell and High Water: Global Warming—the Solution and the Politics—and What We Should Do. At Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW., at 7 p.m. WEDNESDAY When the men of a remote mountain village in Colombia are abducted by guerrillas, the women left behind learn how to get by…
It seems like spelling bees are popular nowadays – recently we talked about the D.C. Bee spelling bee for adults, and before that there was the documentary “Spellbound” and the Starbucks tie-in movie “Akeelah and the Bee.” But today the World Series of spelling bees kicked off, and right in our backyard. The first round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee started earlier today in D.C., with the second round set for this afternoon and…