Thanks to FoodSmith and West St. Paul Chiropractic for their support.
The Optimist Club of West St. Paul hosted the 27th annual ISD 197 spelling bee last night at Two Rivers High School. A total of 33 students completed from all five elementary schools and two middle schools in the district.
Champions: The top speller for each bracket can continue on to compete in the regional spelling bee:
- Elementary school: Garlough fourth grader Chase Peterson won the elementary bracket after successfully spelling the word “Brooklyn.”
- Middle school: Heritage seventh grader Natalia Carlson won the middle school bracket after successfully spelling the word “legato.”
In addition to the district champions, each school had a champion crowned:
- Garlough: Chase Peterson (winning word: “Brooklyn”)
- Mendota: Elsa Holt (“disclaimer”)
- Moreland: Willow Koerner (“invisible”)
- Pilot Knob: Royce Malapit (“propitious”)
- Somerset: Aria Moran (“appreciation”)
- Friendly Hills: Milo Scharfenberg (“ficus”)
- Heritage: Natalia Carlson (“legato”)
Spelling Words
Part of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, the words were randomly selected from the Scripps’ word list. Some words were more challenging than others.
A few words that tripped students up included: contemptible, voracious, erlenmeyer flask, Gilgamesh, hypocaust, coccidiosis, Pleiades, Albuquerque, meitnerium, retinitis pigmentosa, campanology, decimation, extemporaneous, crustaceans, and fugue.
More impressively, some words students spelled correctly included: destitution, propitious, antonyms, minimus, lanthanides, luciferin, megaron, scandium, abens, Assam, rooibos tea, thoroughbred, rhythmically, and cauterize.
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