Vermillion Dakota Valley students advance to state Spelling Bee
The state competition is at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 21 at Farber Hall inside of Old Main. They will compete against the top three places from regional competitions at Rapid City, Mitchell, Sioux Falls and Mobridge. The event will be streamed live on www.usd.edu.
Thirty-two contestants representing 10 South Dakota elementary and middle schools competed at the 2015 Southeast South Dakota Regional Spelling Bee. In addition to the oral bee, students completed written and vocabulary exams prior to the oral competition. Addo was the highest scorer while Kadarkaraisamy finished second and Simon Carlson of Yankton Middle School was third. In the regional contest, the written scores did not count toward the championship as they do in the national contest.
The winner of the USD Scripps Spelling Bee next month will participate in the 88th Scripps National Spelling Bee this May in Washington D.C. The competition is open for students in first grade through the eighth grade. Download a photo of Dudley, Kadarkaraisamy and Addo.
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