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South Windsor 4th Grader to Compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee
Keshav Ramesh will compete against 280 other entrants at this year's spelling bee starting on May 29.
The following is a press release from the South Windsor Public Library:
Fourth-grader Keshav Ramesh, the South Windsor Spelling Bee Champion, and his family will leave today (Sunday) for Washington, D.C. and the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Due to the generosity of the Friends of South Windsor Public Library, the South Windsor Community Foundation, and the South Windsor Public Education Fund, South Windsor Public Library was able to sponsor the 2013 Spelling Bee.
Over 100 students from the five elementary schools and Timothy Edwards Middle School participated in the qualifying rounds held in the fall of 2012.
The top three spellers from each elementary school and the top five spellers from TEMS then met in March 2013 for the final round.
Ramesh, a fourth grader from Eli Terry Elementary School was our champion. The winning word was "dervish."
Sandy Westbrook, Children's Librarian at the library, will also be attending the National Spelling Bee. Sandy will be blogging about the events of Bee Week on the South Windsor Patch blog; check out her first post here.
She will also post on the South Windsor Children's Department's Facebook page.
If you would like to check out some spelling bee events, many of them will be televised.
On Wednesday, May 29 ESPN3 will show the Round Two Preliminaries Live from 8 to 11:45 a.m. and 1:15 to 4:45 p.m.
On Thursday, May 30 the Semifinals will be live on ESPN2 at 2 p.m.
The Championship Finals will appear live on ESPN beginning at 8 p.m. on Thursday evening.
Keshav will have to pass two sets of computer tests, as well as the oral spelling tests, in order to make it into the finals on Thursday. Scripps changed their rules after all the local champions had been chosen and spellers must now pass vocabulary tests as well as spelling tests.
Computer tests take place before the preliminaries and before the semifinals.
You may check out his opponents, read about the rules and all the events on the web at spellingbee.com.
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