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Indian-American kids conquer US spelling bee
May 31, 2008
The Bee is the nation's largest and longest-running educational promotion, administered on a not-for-profit basis by the E W Scripps Company and backed by 280 sponsors in the United States, American Samoa, the Bahamas, Canada, Europe, Ghana, Guam, Jamaica, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, South Korea, and the US Virgin Islands.
The programme is open to students who have reached their 15th birthday on or before September 1, 2007, who have not passed beyond eighth grade on or before February 1, 2008, and who attend schools that enrolled for participation during the 2007-2008 academic year.
The competition has acquired such a high profile in recent years that it has inspired movies and Broadway plays and ESPN has been broadcasting it live for the past several years. Last year, the network ABC began broadcasting the final rounds live at prime time at 8 pm.
This year, the network also brought in as emcee, the co-host of the popular ABC's Dancing with the Stars show and veteran of several game shows Tom Bergeron, who declared at the outset, "If you thought dancing on live TV is tough, try spelling."
Image: Kavya Shivashankar is comforted by her father after she was eliminated during the 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Also read: Scripps National Spelling Bee
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