2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee Winner
Well it is official. This year's Scripps National Spelling Bee winner is Evan O'Dorney. He is a 13-year-old homeschooled student from Danville, California. Evan's favorite subjects are math and music. To him, spelling is just a bunch of memorization, and seems to come natural to him.
The competition was held on Thursday, May 31, 2007. The first day of this year's competition, held in Washington, DC, hosted 286 students from around the world. Top spellers were from the U.S., Europe, Guam, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. There were 139 boys and 147 girls, between the ages of 10 to 15 years. It was a tough, but noble battle for all participants. But, when day two came around, there were just 59 students left and Evan took home the trophy.
The Louisville Courier-Journal started a spelling bee competition in 1925 with just nine contestants. Scripps actually took on official sponsorship of the event in 1941. Winners thus far have consisted of 43 girls and 39 boys. The competition is now open to students who have not reached their 16th birthday before or on the day of the national finals, and have not advanced beyond eighth grade by February 1.
The actual spelling bee is an oral competition that goes in rounds until finally one competitor is left standing. Scripps developed a list of 1,000 words that could have been used in this year's competition. The purpose of the Scripps National Spelling Bee is to help children develop their vocabulary and spelling skills to help them throughout their lives.
Evan won an engraved loving cup (a large cup usually with two or more handles, given as a prize), $35,000 in cash, a $5,000 scholarship, and $2,500 savings bond. What did he have to spell correctly to earn his winnings? The word was serrefine, which are small forceps used to clamp a blood vessel. Evan seemed to spell it with confidence.
Do not feel too bad for the other contestants. They all received a commemorative watch, the Samuel Lewis Sugarman award, which consists of $100 US bond, a Webster's Third New International Dictionary on CD-ROM from Merriam-Webster, a $20 gift certificate to Franklin Electronic Publishers, and an iQuest handheld from LeapFrog.
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The competition was held on Thursday, May 31, 2007. The first day of this year's competition, held in Washington, DC, hosted 286 students from around the world. Top spellers were from the U.S., Europe, Guam, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. There were 139 boys and 147 girls, between the ages of 10 to 15 years. It was a tough, but noble battle for all participants. But, when day two came around, there were just 59 students left and Evan took home the trophy.
The Louisville Courier-Journal started a spelling bee competition in 1925 with just nine contestants. Scripps actually took on official sponsorship of the event in 1941. Winners thus far have consisted of 43 girls and 39 boys. The competition is now open to students who have not reached their 16th birthday before or on the day of the national finals, and have not advanced beyond eighth grade by February 1.
The actual spelling bee is an oral competition that goes in rounds until finally one competitor is left standing. Scripps developed a list of 1,000 words that could have been used in this year's competition. The purpose of the Scripps National Spelling Bee is to help children develop their vocabulary and spelling skills to help them throughout their lives.
Evan won an engraved loving cup (a large cup usually with two or more handles, given as a prize), $35,000 in cash, a $5,000 scholarship, and $2,500 savings bond. What did he have to spell correctly to earn his winnings? The word was serrefine, which are small forceps used to clamp a blood vessel. Evan seemed to spell it with confidence.
Do not feel too bad for the other contestants. They all received a commemorative watch, the Samuel Lewis Sugarman award, which consists of $100 US bond, a Webster's Third New International Dictionary on CD-ROM from Merriam-Webster, a $20 gift certificate to Franklin Electronic Publishers, and an iQuest handheld from LeapFrog.
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