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Annual spelling bee held in the U.s.

Scripps National Spelling Bee
Genre	Spelling bee
Frequency	Annual (late May or early June)
Location(s)	Washington, D.C. area
Inaugurated	1925 (1925)
Patron(s)	The E. Westward. Scripps Visitor
Website	www.spellingbee.com

The Scripps National Spelling Bee (formerly the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee and unremarkably called the National Spelling Bee) is an annual spelling bee held in the United states. The bee is run on a not-for-profit ground past The Due east. W. Scripps Company and is held at a hotel or convention center in Washington, D.C. during the calendar week post-obit Memorial Day weekend. Since 2011, it has been held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center hotel in National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, just exterior Washington D.C. Information technology was previously held at the M Hyatt Washington in Washington D.C. from 1996 to 2010. Current and past Executive Directors of the Spelling Bee, Paige Kimble and Reta (née Reynolds) Rose have helped to widely popularize the Spelling Bee during their corresponding and lengthy tenures at the bee.

Although most of its participants are from the U.Southward., students from countries such as The Bahamas, Canada, the People's Commonwealth of China, India, Republic of ghana, Nihon, Jamaica, United mexican states, and New Zealand have too competed in contempo years. Historically, the competition has been open up to, and remains open to, the winners of sponsored regional spelling bees in the U.S. (including territories such every bit Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, the Navajo Nation, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, along with overseas military bases in Germany and South korea). Participants from countries other than the U.Southward. must be regional spelling-bee winners also.

Contest participants cannot exist older than 14 as of Baronial 31 of the twelvemonth before the competition; nor can they be past the 8th form as of February 1 of that twelvemonth'southward competition. Previous winners are also ineligible to compete.^[1]

In 2019, the Spelling Bee ran out of words that might challenge the contestants and concluded upward having viii winners. The 2020 National Spelling Bee competition, originally scheduled for May 24, was suspended and later canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^{[two] [3] [4]} This was the first time it had been canceled since 1945.^[5]

History [edit]

A Jamaican contestant from 2011

The National Spelling Bee was formed in 1925 as a consolidation of numerous local spelling bees, organized by The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky. Frank Neuhauser won the first National Spelling Bee held that twelvemonth, past successfully spelling "gladiolus".^{[vi] [7]} the spelling bee has been held every year except for 1943–1945 due to World War 2 and 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[iii] The E.W. Scripps Company acquired the rights to the program in 1941.^[8] The bee is held in late May and/or early June of each year. It is open to students who have non yet completed the eighth grade, reached their 15th birthday, nor won a previous National Spelling Bee. Its goal is educational: not simply to encourage children to perfect the art of spelling, merely also to help enlarge their vocabularies and widen their knowledge of the English language.

An insect bee is featured prominently on the logo of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, despite "bee" existence unrelated to the name of the insect. "Bee" refers to "a gathering", where people join together in an activeness.^[9] This sense of "bee" is related to the word "been".^[10]

The Bee is the nation'due south largest and longest-running educational promotion, administered on a not-for-profit basis by The E.Due west. Scripps Company and 291 sponsors in the The states, Europe, Canada, New Zealand, Guam, Jamaica, The Bahama islands, Ghana, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa.

The contest [edit]

Qualifying regional competitions [edit]

To qualify for the Scripps National Spelling Bee, a speller must win a regional competition. Regional spelling bees usually cover many counties, with some covering an unabridged state, U.S. territory, or foreign land. Regional competitions' rules are non required to correspond exactly to those of the national contest; virtually notably, the national competition has since 2004 featured time controls that are designed to ensure its conformity to the programming schedule of its nationwide television broadcaster (come across Regulations of oral rounds below) and that are non intended to be implemented at lower levels of competition.

Most school and regional bees (known to Scripps as local spelling bees) use the official study booklet. Through contest year 1994, the study booklet was known as Words of the Champions; during competition years 1995 through 2006, the study booklet was the category-based Paideia; in 2007 the format and title were inverse to the 701-word Spell It!, and in 2020 a new edition of Words of the Champions is used. The booklet is published by Merriam-Webster in association with the National Spelling Bee. Information technology contains 1,155 words, divided primarily by language of origin, along with exercises and activities in each section. Nearly bees whose winners advance to regional-level competition apply the School Pronouncer's Guide, which contains a collection of Words of the Champions words likewise every bit "off-list words" not listed in Words of the Champions merely featured in Scripps' official dictionary, the entire Webster's Third New International Dictionary (published past Merriam-Webster).^{[ citation needed ]}

Scripps provides a Sponsor Bee Guide to administrators of regional bees. The Sponsor Bee Guide consists of two volumes, each of which contains both words from Words of the Champions and "surprise words". Bees need non utilise the words from Words of the Champions to be considered official.

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To participate in the national contest, a speller must exist sponsored. Scripps has 281 sponsors (more often than not newspapers) from the U.S., Canada, The Bahamas, New Zealand, Asia, and Europe covering a certain area and conducting their own regional spelling bees to send spellers to the national level.

Sponsorship is available on a limited basis to daily and weekly newspapers serving English-speaking populations around the earth. Each sponsor organizes a spelling bee programme in its community with the cooperation of surface area school officials: public, private, parochial, charter, virtual, and home schools.

Schools enroll with the national part to ensure their students are eligible to participate and to receive the materials needed to conduct classroom and school bees. During enrollment, school bee coordinators receive their local sponsor'south program-specific information—local dates, deadlines, and participation guidelines.

National-contest format [edit]

Preliminaries [edit]

The Preliminaries consists of a test (Preliminaries Test) delivered by estimator on Tuesday and two rounds of oral spelling onstage on Wednesday. Spellers may earn upwardly to 36 points during the Preliminaries: upward to 30 points on the Preliminaries Test, three points for correctly spelling in Round 2 and three points for correctly spelling in Round Three.

Round 1 [edit]

The Preliminaries Examination (likewise chosen round one) has four sections, most of which administered past a calculator organisation. Round 1 of the preliminaries consists of two sections; Section A consists of spelling 24 words, identical for each contestant, with each correct answer awarding 1 bespeak (simply only 12 of the 24 words are actually scored). Section B consists of 24 multiple-pick vocabulary questions using a like scoring format. Department C and D, preliminary rounds 2 and three, consist of a unmarried multiple-option vocabulary question each. The questions are unique to each contestant, and worth 3 points towards their Preliminaries score. The highest possible score in the preliminaries is xxx.^[11]

History of Round 1 [edit]

Round One was a written spelling test, and has changed in format several times. In the few years prior to 2008, Round Ane consisted of a 25-discussion, multiple-choice written test. However, in 2010, changes were made in the formatting of this examination. It consisted of 25 words, sometimes chosen "the written round". All spellers gathered at the Maryland Ballroom by 8:00 a.m. Jacques Bailly, the Bee'due south official pronouncer (too the 1980 champion) pronounced each give-and-take, its language of origin, definition, and usage in a sentence. Spellers are given a 30-2nd pause in which to write downward their word with the two pens given to them, and so Bailly repeated the word and all information. At that place was another 30-second pause, and then they moved onto the next discussion. Each correctly spelled word on the Round 1 written test was worth one indicate. In 2011, they stayed with that format. In 2012, they changed to the original computerized examination, 50 spelling words, one-half scored and half not scored.

Beginning in 2013, the test now includes vocabulary questions, such as beingness asked to choose the correct definition for a word. While met with criticism by by contestants for deviating from the concept of a spelling bee, organizers indicated that the change was made to help avert perceptions that the competition was based solely on memorization skills (as had been showcased by telly broadcasts), and to aid further the Bee's goal of expanding the vocabulary and language skills of children.^[12]

Circular 2 [edit]

Round Two is an oral round, in which spellers spell a word from the Words of the Champions list. Each speller receives a unique word. Every speller participates and has a chance to take the stage. A right oral spelling in Round Two is worth iii points. If they miss their give-and-take, the caput judge will ring the bong, and the speller is eliminated from the competition. Dr. Bailly will offering the correct spelling, and the speller is escorted off stage. All spellers who misspell in Circular Ii will tie for the same place.

Circular Three [edit]

Round Three is an oral circular. Every speller who spelled correctly in Round Ii spells a discussion from Merriam-Webster Entire. Like Circular Two, it is worth 3 points for a right spelling. If a speller misspells, then he or she is eliminated from the competition and is escorted off stage. The judges total scores from the remaining spellers to determine qualification for semifinals.

Semifinals [edit]

Round Four was recently changed in 2016.^[13] Scripps recently dropped the semi-finals test and added a Tiebreaker Test^[xiv] (nonetheless, it was simply used in 2017 and 2018), in which the spellers took a examination similar to the preliminaries test, but containing harder and confusing words. Equally a result, there was controversy and Scripps dropped the Tiebreaker Test in 2019, in which 8 co-champions won. Circular Four is at present oral and the start of the finals, in which no more than 50 spellers compete. At that place is no study list for this round and the rest of the finals.

Finals [edit]

At the terminate of the finals, the remaining spellers thin out into 10-xvi and all the remaining spellers are invited to spell in the finals. This can keep until the word list is exhausted and the judges move on to the 25 championship rounds until a champion or articulation champions are crowned.

Regulations of oral rounds [edit]

Before 2004, a speller could not be required to spell a given word until the judges deemed that the discussion had been clearly pronounced and identified by the speller; even then, judges rarely if ever instructed a contestant to brainstorm spelling unless it was obvious that the speller was making no further progress in figuring out the discussion and that he/she was instead merely "stalling for fourth dimension". Nigh local and regional competitions continue to follow this rule and enforcement pattern, although they are not obliged to exercise then.

Starting in 2004, the Bee adopted new rules. A speller is given two and a half minutes from when a give-and-take is first pronounced to spell information technology completely. The get-go 2 minutes are Regular Time; the final xxx seconds are Finish Time. During this fourth dimension limit, a speller is allowed to ask the pronouncer for the word's:

• Definition
• Role of speech communication
• Use in a sentence
• Language(s) of origin (the complete etymology of the word is non provided)
• Alternating pronunciations
• Root (A speller may ask whether a word comes from a item root give-and-take or word chemical element, merely the competitor must specify that root'due south language of origin and definition.)
• Repeat the word

A chime signals that regular time has expired, and the judges inform the speller that Finish Time has begun. The speller may lookout a clock counting down from thirty seconds; no timing devices are allowed onstage. During Finish Fourth dimension, a speller may not make further requests to the pronouncer merely rather must begin spelling the give-and-take. Whatever speller who exceeds the time limit is automatically eliminated; judges exercise non acknowledge messages spelled after the cease of Stop Time. A speller is allowed to end spelling a discussion and restart spelling, but if (s)he changes the letters already said, the alteration counts every bit a misspelling and causes automatic emptying.

Starting in the 2015 bee, the time limit was reduced to two minutes, indicated by a monitor with a traffic light on it. For the first 75 seconds, the traffic low-cal is green. Once 45 seconds remain, the light turns yellow and a countdown appears on the screen. While the light is light-green or yellow, the speller is free to request information from the pronouncer every bit listed above. Once 30 seconds remain, the light turns crimson and the speller must begin spelling the word as in Stop Fourth dimension above.

Recent spelling bees [edit]

Twelvemonth	Contest details
2013	86th Contest
2014	87th Competition
2015	88th Competition
2016	89th Competition
2017	90th Competition
2018	91st Competition
2019	92nd Competition
2020	canceled[3]
2021	93rd Competition

Proposed international bee [edit]

In May 2012, Scripps appear tentative plans for an international version, in which iii-person teams from equally many equally sixty countries would compete. Although each speller would be able to confer with teammates once during each contest, all spellers would eventually compete and win prizes as individuals. If logistical and financial details can be reached, the issue would be officially announced in early 2013 with the commencement competition to take place the following December.^{[xv] [16]} Every bit of 2015, these plans are on agree.

Champions and winning words [edit]

Prizes [edit]

As of the 2019 competition, the first place prize was raised from $40,000 to $50,000, and in the event of a tie, the two winners volition split the first and 2d place ($25,000) awards ($37,500 each).^[17]

The winner also receives other prizes, such equally an engraved loving cup trophy from Scripps, a $2,500 savings bond, a reference library from Merriam-Webster, $400 in reference works and a lifetime membership to Britannica Online Premium from Encyclopædia Britannica, and an online course and a Nook eReader from K12 Inc.

All spellers receive Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Entire on CD-ROM from Merriam-Webster; the Samuel Louis Sugarman Award, which is a $100 U.S. Savings Bond; a cash prize from Scripps for contestants who achieve the Semi-finals; and Equally of 2015^[update], a Microsoft Surface 3 with keyboard and stylus. The cash prizes are determined based on the circular, and can exist as much as $12,500 (for the second-identify finisher). In 2014, spellers eliminated before the Semi-finals began receiving educational tools from Microsoft instead of a $100 cash prize given in years past. All other prizes remained unchanged.

Historical format and prizes [edit]

For the first three decades of the bee (1925–1957), the spelling contest was held on a single twenty-four hours. This presented no problem in the Bee'south early on years, which had only 9 contestants in 1925, and did not crack 50 contestants before 1950. After the 1957 bee took almost 10 hours to complete (the second-ever tie after the word list was wearied),^[18] the bee moved to a two-day format in 1958.^[19] Equally the number of contestants continued to increase (first breaking 100 in 1978), an opening practice round was eliminated at the 1987 bee due to a tape 185 entrants.^[20]

After a three-mean solar day bee was held for the first fourth dimension in 2001, a written examination was added for the first time in 2002 to assistance keep the bee to two days of contest. In 2002 and 2003, a 25-word written examination was given afterwards an opening oral round.^[21]

For most of its early years, the first identify prize was either $500 or $thou. It was $500 in gold pieces in the first bee in 1925,^[22] and doubled to $g the adjacent twelvemonth.^[23] Information technology dropped back to $500 in the 1933 bee during the Peachy Depression,^[24] and only returned to $thou in 1956.^[25] In 1987, the first identify prize was raised to $1,500, and all spellers after reaching tenth identify received $fifty.^[twenty] By 1993 it was $5,000.^[26] In 2007, the prize was $50,000 in greenbacks, simply in 2009, the prize dropped to $35,000 in cash and more than than $five,000 in prizes. In 2012, the prize dropped withal again to $30,000 in cash and just over $10,000 in prizes, savings bonds, and scholarships. In 2015, the prize increased to $38,600 in cash, and increased again in 2016 to $xl,000 cash prize, where it stayed the aforementioned until 2018, when the prize was increased to $l,000 cash, which was equivalent to the cash prize xi years earlier.

Media coverage [edit]

CNN was one of the start television receiver channels to acquit coverage of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, with personalities including Anderson Cooper and 1979 champion Katie McCrimmon. Scripps CEO Rich Boehne described its coverage as having been "very hit or miss", explaining that "I'd sit and watch and see a little snippet of some coverage and then somebody would cut out and go somewhere else." Boehne began to contemplate how the event could be presented for television in a fashion that would be more compelling to viewers.^[27] In 1994, Scripps began an agreement with ESPN to broadcast coverage of the national finals; the network added a larger focus on analysis and profiles on the competitors.^[27] The broadcasts were credited with having brought greater prominence to the event.^[28] ESPN would afterward expand its coverage to comprehend the early on rounds of the competition too,^{[29] [thirty]} and added features such as a "play-along" circulate on its streaming platforms.^[27]

In May 2006, it was announced that the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee would be moved to primetime on ESPN's sis broadcast network ABC, with Robin Roberts of ESPN and Proficient Morning time America serving as host. ABC executives positioned the primetime broadcast every bit a form of reality tv, while the move came on the heels of the release of Akeelah and the Bee—a drama film based on the event.^{[28] [29]} Past 2013, the ABC broadcast had been dropped, with the finals returning exclusively to ESPN.^[xxx]

In October 2021, Scripps appear that the result's broadcast would move to its co-owned broadcast television networks Bounce Boob tube and Ion Television beginning in 2022; the company promoted that the event would be "attainable to the widest audience in its nigh 100-twelvemonth history".^[29]

In popular civilisation [edit]

Fiction [edit]

The drama film Bee Flavour (2005), based on Myla Goldberg's novel of the same name, follows a young girl's journeying through various levels of spelling-bee contest to the Scripps National Spelling Bee, as did the drama film Akeelah and the Bee (2006).^{[31] [32]}

The 2d Episode of Season 1 of Psych, "Spellingg Bee", dealt with a murder during a Spelling Bee event.

Contestants in the musical-one-act play The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which ran on Broadway starting in 2005, are competing for a spot in the National Spelling Bee.^[33]

The 2013 movie Bad Words revolves around a forty-twelvemonth-one-time eighth grade dropout (Jason Bateman) attempting to win a fictional equivalent of the SNSB.^[34]

Nonfiction [edit]

The Netflix documentary Spelling the Dream (2020) chronicles the ups and downs of iv Indian-American students equally they compete to realize their dream of winning the iconic Scripps National Spelling Bee.

The University Award-nominated documentary film Spellbound (2002) follows 8 competitors, including eventual national winner Nupur Lala, through the 1999 contest.

The book American Bee, by James Maguire, profiles five spellers who made it to the terminal rounds of the competition – Samir Patel, Katharine Close, Aliya Deri, Jamie Ding, and Marshall Winchester – also as giving an overview of the history of the bee.^[35]

The 5th episode of season 1 of the ESPN Classic bear witness Inexpensive Seats featured the 1997 competition.

References [edit]

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21. ^ Phinney, David (20 May 2002). Maine girl heads for spelling bee finals, Bangor Daily News
22. ^ Brownish, Emma (March 23, 2011). "Frank Neuhauser dies at 97". Washington Mail. Archived from the original on June 13, 2013. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
23. ^ (eighteen June 1926). Louisville Girl Awarded Prize in Spelling Contest, St. Petersburg Times
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25. ^ (11 May 1956). 63 Young Champions Entered In National Spelling Contest, Wilmington Star-News
26. ^ Cass, Connie (3 June 1993). Spelling bee field narrows to 19, Associated Press
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Further reading [edit]

• Gormley, Amelia. Verbomania: Experiencing the National Spelling Bee.
• Maguire, James. American Bee: The National Spelling Bee and the Culture of Word Nerds.
• Kimble, Paige, Trinkle, Barrie, and Andrews, Carolyn. "How To Spell Similar A Gnaw".

External links [edit]

• SpellingBee.com, the competition's official website
• 2008 Spelling Bee Press Release
• Terminal rounds of 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee to exist broadcast live on ABC during primetime (press release)

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