West Lafayette Intermediate student wins Scripps Regional Spelling Bee again

West Lafayette Intermediate student wins Scripps Regional Spelling Bee again

(time check) a 12-year-old west lafayette student has just won the scripps regional spelling bee... again.

(shy-ree) (shawn-tee) is now in the process of heading to the national spelling bee.

News 18's micah upshaw tells us how this win follows an unexpected journey.

Micah?

Unexpected is absolutely right.

Like many, none of us knew how covid-19 would uproot our plans.

For shanti, this meant the national spelling bee getting cancelled last year.

That's why winning again, is extra special for her.

On your screen is video of our interview with 12-year-old shayari shanti last year.

In it she's showing us how she prepares for the regional and national spelling bee.

As you can see, she's got her dictionary and list of words that she often reads and repeats.

Well that's similar to how preparation has looked for this year's competition.

She just won the scripps regional spelling bee earlier this month.

Shanti said the competition was done as a written test this year.

She says it was difficult but now she's looking forward to connecting with like- minded students.

I'm just really excited to go and also just do it with people who actually really love words and this competition.

For this year's competition, spellers had a 24 hour window to take the test with a scripps certified and approved proctor.

Students also had to sign a code-of-honor document promising no cheating.

Now shanti is heading to the preliminaries.

This consists of a quarter-final and semi- final competition, which will both be online.

The national spelling bee is set to happen in florida this summer.

Reporting in studio, micah upshaw.

News 18.

Thank you, micah.

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