Meet the spellers of the SpellPundit National Online Spelling Bee Competition!
Alex Tiu is an 8th grader from Lufkin, TX. Learn more about him in this video:
We encourage you to send us your videos to us as well!
When Scripps called off the National Spelling Bee in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, many spellers, especially students who are currently in 8th grade, were very disappointed to hear the news. SpellPundit decided to conduct our own online spelling bee in the same week of May to give these spellers a chance to compete. We have received an overwhelming response and many thank you notes from parents for planning the online competition.
The SpellPundit online spelling bee competition has also been getting a lot of media attention from Associated Press, New York Times, NPR, CBS, Scripps News, etc. Here is the latest interview with SpellPundit’s co-founders Shobha Dasari and Shourav Dasari! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUl1FT8Ke_A&feature=youtu.be
Saturday Feb 29th was a Super Bee Day! Bee Winners, Runner-Up, 2nd Runner-Up and many top rankers at every bee were SpellPundit Students. Congratulations to all the SpellPundit spellers for doing so well. Vayun Krishna (Bay Area Winner), Dean Alkhairy (Orange County), Vikram Goddla (Oakland Bee Winner), Nidhi Achanta (Seattle Bee Winner), and Cameron Keith (Boulder Bee Winner) are heading to Scripps National Spelling in DC. SpellPundit wishes you good luck!
SpellPundit is proud sponsor of Spanadana Spelling Bee!
Spandana Foundation (www.spandana.org), a non-profit organization, is organizing Junior Spelling Bee (Grades 1-3), Intermediate Spelling Bee (Grades 4-5) and Senior Spelling Bee (Grades 6-8) on Sunday March 8 2020 in San Ramon, CA.
This is a very well organized bee. It is a good opportunity to test your spelling skills as you are preparing for Scripps Spelling Bee. Registration and additional information is at:
https://www.spandana.org/spellingbee2020.html
Please participate in the bee, you have nothing to lose except learn a few new words!
Please spread the word by sharing with friends and family.
Please check your answers to last week’s quiz on homonyms!
Please note that the homonym sets ‘immanent’ and ‘imminent’ are most commonly misspelled by spellers.
Homonyms are unavoidable in any spelling bee. So, mastering them is very important part of the spelling bee preparation. Here are some words to test your knowledge :
The SpellPundit has been all over the news in the past year! This is what major newspapers have said about SpellPundit:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/31/us/spellpundit-scripps-spelling-bee.html
This week’s topic is about plural nouns!
The WishWin Spellathon 2019 sponsored by SpelPundit was held at The University of Texas at Dallas on Dec 7th. The event was filled with many enthusiastic spellers. Both young and senior spellers had a chance to interact with Scripps National Spelling Bee champion (2018) and co-champions (2019), Karthik Nemmani, Sohum Sukhatankar, and Rohan Raja!
Here is the list of top spellers of Senior and Junior spelling bee category:
Senior Spellathon Winners:
Champion: Michael Kolagani (Austin, TX)
1st Runner-up: Vivinsha Veduru (Keller, TX)
2nd Runner-up: Shijay Sivakumar (Midland, TX)
Junior Spellathon Winners:
Champion: Arnesh Jayaram (Allen, TX)
1st Runner-up: Anirudh Kidambi (Frisco, TX)
2nd Runner-up: Siyonamithra Kandala (San Antonio, TX)
4th Place: Darsheel Paila (Dallas, TX)
The top spellers received gift vouchers of $500, $300, and $200 from SpellPundit!
Kudos to the entire team of WishWin for organizing such a great event for good cause!
WishWin is a Non-Profit Organization. WishWin’s mission is to promote academic excellence through contests, and also help underprivileged children.
