The 245 spellers that began the 96th Scripps National Spelling Bee have been knocked down to eight before Thursday’s broadcast.
The Scripps National Spelling Bee final round of eight will take place Thursday night at Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, following preliminary, quarterfinal and semifinal segments on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Date: May 30, 2024
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This year’s spellers – all age 15 or under – came from all 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and Department of Defense Schools in Europe. The Bahamas, Canada and Ghana were also represented among the spellers.
The second round in the finals will be the vocabulary round, which was introduced to the Bee in 2021, where each speller will select the correct definition of a word from a multiple choice list. All other rounds of competition consist of traditional word oral spelling.
The finalists include: YY Liang, 12, from New York; Aditi Muthukumar, 13, from Colorado; Shrey Parikh, 12, from California; Ananya Rao Prassanna, 13, from North Carolina; Rishabh Saha, 14, from California; Kirsten Tiffany Santos, 13, from Texas; Bruhat Soma, 12, from Florida; and Faizan Zaki, 12, from Texas.
While all finalists will receive a monetary prize plus other perks, the winner gets more than $50,000 cash, the official trophy, a reference library from Merriam-Webster and reference works from Encyclopedia Britannica
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