Draft:96th Scripps National Spelling Bee
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| 96th Scripps National Spelling Bee | |
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| Date | May 26-30 |
| Location | Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center (National Harbor, Maryland) |
| Winner | Bruhat Soma |
| Age | 12 |
| Residence | St. Petersburg, Florida |
| Sponsor | Rays Baseball Foundation and Rowdies Soccer Fund |
| Sponsor location | St. Petersburg, Florida |
| Winning word | abseil (spell-off) |
| Pronouncer | Jacques Bailly and Brian Sietsema |
| Preceded by | 95th Scripps National Spelling Bee |
| Followed by | 97th Scripps National Spelling Bee |
The 96th Scripps National Spelling Bee was a spelling bee competition that was held at Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland.
The 2024 bee welcomed 245 spellers from the United States and its territories, Canada, Ghana, and The Bahamas. After competing in preliminary, quarterfinal and semi-final rounds on May 28, and May 29, 2024, the field of competition narrowed to 8 finalists who competed on the night of May 30, 2024.
Field
[edit]Scripps National Spelling Bee's field of competition begins with 11 million students, in grades 8 and younger, who compete in local and regional spelling bee competitions to qualify for the Scripps Bee.[1]
The 8 finalist spellers, and their respective sponsors, were the following students:
Rishabh Saha, 14, an 8th grader representing SNSB Region One Bee of Merced, California.
Shrey Parikh, 12, a 6th grader representing the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools of San Bernardino, California.
Aditi Muthukumar, 13, an 8th grader representing The Denver Post of Denver, Colorado.
Bruhat Soma, 12, a 7th grader representing the Rays Baseball Foundation and Rowdies Soccer Fund of St. Petersburg, Florida.
YY Liang, 12, a 7th grader representing ScholarSkills for STARS of New Windsor, New York.
Ananya Rao Prassanna, 13, a 7th grader representing the Carolina Panthers of Charlotte, North Carolina.
Faizan Zaki, 12, a 6th grader representing the Dallas Sports Commission of Dallas, Texas.
Kirsten Tiffany Santos, 13, an 8th grader representing Houston Community College of Houston, Texas.
Competition
[edit]Final rankings
[edit]1st place
Bruhat Soma (spelled 29 words correctly in the spell-off)
2nd place
Faizan Zaki (spelled 20 words correctly in the spell-off)
3rd place (tie)
Shrey Parikh
Ananya Prassanna[2]
5th place
Aditi Muthukumar[3]
6th place
Kirsten Santos[4]
7th place (tie)
Rishabh Saha
YY Liang[5]
Word list championship round
[edit]- desmotrope
- eustachian
- febrifuge
- habitude
- immanent
- morbilliform
- oosorption
- plagiotropic
- jurisprudential (word meaning)
- tesseract (word meaning)
- sine qua non (word meaning)
- velocipede (word meaning)
- liminal (word meaning)
- modus operandi (word meaning)
- grunion
- peccant
- indumentum
- saltigrade
- sphenography
- apophasis
- gobiesocid
- molysite
- dehnstufe
- martaban
- avahi
- Jumano
- Lillooet
- Okvik
- tennesi
- daena
- kanin
- Hoofddorp
- murrina
- nicuri
Spell-off championship round
[edit]See also
[edit]References
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- ^ Spellingbee.com About page, retrieved 2023-06-01
- ^ "2024 Round Results - Round 14 | Scripps National Spelling Bee". spellingbee.com. Retrieved 2024-06-14.
- ^ "2024 Round Results - Round 13 | Scripps National Spelling Bee". spellingbee.com. Retrieved 2024-06-14.
- ^ "2024 Round Results - Round 11 | Scripps National Spelling Bee". spellingbee.com. Retrieved 2024-06-14.
- ^ "2024 Round Results - Round 9 | Scripps National Spelling Bee". spellingbee.com. Retrieved 2024-06-14.
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