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| USA Spelling Bee Final Competition Highlights |
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| May 2009 |
Every year, the finalists of Spelling Bee from all the regions and countries of the Spelling Bee gather in the Capital of United States, Washington DC, for a final competition.
The May 2009 Competition has produced the following winners: |
Champion: Kavya Shivashankar
School: California Trail Junior High School, Kansas,
USA
Age: Thirteen, 8th grade |
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Award:
- $30,000 cash prize and an engraved trophy – Scripps
- $2,500 U.S. savings bond and a complete reference library – Merriam-Webster
- $5,000 scholarship – Sigma Phi Epsilon Educational Foundation
- $2,800 in reference works and the Britannica Test Prep Precocious Program valued at $799 – Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Second Place: Tim Ruiter
School: NOVATAG- Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Age: Twelve, 7th grade
Award: $12,500 cash |
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Third Place: Aishwarya Pastapur
School: Glenwood Middle School, Illinois, USA
Age: Thirteen, 8th grade
Award: $7,500 cash |
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All Spellers:
- Each Championship Finalist received a 51- volume Britannica Discover America and the 2008 Encyclopaedia Britannica Student Edition DVD-ROM
- Each Spelling Bee finalist received cash prizes, ranging from 100 USD for the preliminaries to 3,000 USD for fourth place
- A Webster's Third New International Dicitionary, Unabriged on CD-ROM
- The Samuel Louis Sugarman Award – a $100 U.S. savings bond
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| 2009 USA Scripps National Spelling Bee |
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