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07/13/11 Twelve-year-old Brianna Lara, who was the 2011 Socorro County Spelling Bee champion and will be in seventh grade at Sarracino Middle School in the fall, has been riding on planes since she was little.
07/09/11 The Spelling Bee team from Roberts Markel is studying for the Aug. 26. Spelling Bee. Front row, team member Jack Turano, left, and Brenda Bowman, Executive Director, Literacy Council of Fort Bend County. Back row, team members Lyndsay Weber and Mark Rabe, and team coach Carl Favre.
07/02/11 Andrew Sulla Mathews is pictured at this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee competition. Mathews made it to the second oral round of the bee. This was his last chance to compete, as the competition is only open to elementary and middle school students.
06/25/11 LAS CRUCES - Andrea Ramirez of Santa Teresa Middle School will represent the Gadsden Independent School District at the Inaugural Santillana National Spanish Spelling Bee at 10 a.
06/21/11 As a guest of State Sen. John Blake, 2011 Scripps National Spelling Bee Champion Sukanya Roy will address the Pennsylvania State Senate.
06/05/11 Competing on a national level has to be a heavy burden for any 13-year-old, even a prodigy. Years from now, Tin Kuo will better understand that. Right now, he's just trying to work through it, his dreams of winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee cut short after three grueling preliminary rounds.
06/04/11 A day after winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Abington Heights eighth-grader Sukanya Roy was as coveted as any American Idol, but smarter.The 14-year-old champion spent an exhausting Friday doing interviews with national and international media
06/03/11 Anja Beth Swoap (127), sponsored by Lockridge Grindal Nauen P.L.L.P., Minneapolis, Minnesota, is comforted by her family after being eliminated from the semifinals of the 84th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee in National Harbor, Maryland, Thursday, June 2, 2011.
06/03/11 Bespectacled, smiling Denver fifth-grader Dhivya Senthil Murugan succumbed to a Greek spelling of the word freckles, "ephelides," in the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night.
06/03/11 WASHINGTON -- Katie A. Hudek, a 12-year-old sixth-grader from Grafton, was eliminated Wednesday in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
06/03/11 OXON HILL, Md. -- Grace Remmer guessed correctly once but not twice. The 12-year-old from St. Johns County let out a huge smile when she correctly spelled "Liptauer" -- a spicy Slovak cheese spread -- in the sixth round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday. She hadn't studied the word in practice. "I guess I got it from the origin of it," she said. "I got really lucky that I didn't ...
06/03/11 HARRISBURG, Pa., June 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Tom Corbett today congratulated Sukanya Roy, the Pennsylvania eighth grader who won the 84th Scripps National Spelling Bee.
06/03/11 NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. - In the end, 14-year-old Sukanya Roy of Scranton, Pa., with her penchant for writing invisible words on her palm, emerged the victor of the late-night showdown at the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
06/03/11 Evelyn Burch of Clinton probably had the shortest distance to travel to the Scripps National Spelling Bee held this week in Oxon Hill, but that did not tarnish the fun she had with hundreds of other top-notch spellers from around the country, she said Wednesday.
06/03/11 NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- Maine spelling champ Lily Jordan was felled finally at the 2011 Scripps National Spelling Bee, and it was an "f" that did her in during the second round of the tension-filled finals.
06/03/11 Sukanya Roy, 14, of South Abington Township, Pa., outspells 274 other contestants to win the 2011 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.
06/03/11 NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- Indianapolis seventh-grader Gina Solomito gathered as much information as she could when given the unfamiliar word "selion" at the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday.
06/03/11 NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- Nabeel Rahman, the Buffalo area's 13-year-old spelling superstar, made it to the second round of the finals at the 2011 Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night.
06/03/11 Newburgh's Olivia Shoup competed in three rounds of the National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. The Castle South student competed locally to earn the honor of representing Indiana and the Tri-State. Sukanya Roy of South Abington, Pennsylvania was the overall winner of the the 84th Scripps National Spelling Bee.
06/02/11 Narahari Bharadwaj, 13, was one letter away from making it to the final round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
06/02/11 Though she conquered a week's worth of words that ranged from tongue-twisters to silent-lettered tricksters, 14-year-old Sukanya Roy couldn't quite say how she felt after becoming the 87the Scripps National Spelling Bee champion. Hours after her regular bedtime, the Newton Ransom, Penn. resident correctly spelled "periscii" and "cymotrichous" to clinch ... | 
