Meet the 2 Colorado spellers going to the National Spelling Bee

Colorado brainiacs breeze through first 2 rounds at Scripps National Spelling Bee

The two brainiacs representing Colorado at the Scripps National Spelling Bee outside Washington, D.C., this week advanced through the first and second rounds of the competition Tuesday morning. Vedanth “Ved” Raju — a seventh-grader from Aurora Quest K-8 who is sponsored in the Bee by The Denver Post — correctly spelled “faipule,” a Samoan native councillor heading a political district and belonging to a fono, according to Merriam-Webster. Relate…

Meet the 2 Colorado spellers going to the National Spelling Bee

This will be Blanche Li's second time at the bee. Vedanth Raju's brother finished second in 2022.

Meet the Michigan spellers in the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee

Michigan will be represented by nine spellers when the kids begin competing in the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee.They will be numbers 104-112.Here is the list of names:104 Ainsley Gastmeier105 Divya Choudhary106 Elliott Covelle107 Josiah Loehrke108 Zander Myers109 Eliza Schwass110 Ishika Dirisala111 Minna Danziger112 Sanvi MandvekarHere is more information on each from the spelling bee.Ainsley Gastmeier age 14 | grade 8Sponsored By: Macomb …