18 Fil-Am Spellers at Scripps National Spelling BeeBy Gwen de Leon
INQUIRER.net
Washington, DC -The Scripps National Spelling Bee is the United States’ largest and longest-running educational program administered as a non-profit program by The E.W. Scripps Company and 280 sponsors in the U.S., Canada, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, New Zealand, South Korea and Ghana.
Numerous Filipino-American students have competed in previous National Bees, with Joseph Henares of Avon, CT, garnering the highest rank thus far, finishing in the top five of last year’s Bee, co-sharing 3rd place with two other youths.
This year, 18 children of Filipino descent are competing for the title of Spelling Bee Champion, the largest number in recent memory, comprising over 6% of the top 288 spellers from the sponsors’ districts.
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