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Harini Logan, 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion The Spelling Bee, which features elementary and middle school students spelling words that would stump most adults.
I love the Spelling Bee and usually watch even the preliminaries each year. As in sports, I love watching anything where the people involved have committed to practice and learning whether physical or mental. The beautiful and very young faces of determination.
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| Vikram Raju, 12 |
History was made Thursday night when Harini Logan, 14, won the first-ever spell-off at the 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee. The San Antonio, Texas, native received a trophy and a check for $50,000. Harini Logan kept trying to learn from her near-misses in online spelling bees. Recognized for years as one of the best spellers in the English language, she had never taken a national title. In the biggest bee of them all, she endured a new series of setbacks, but somehow, at the end, she was still there.
After repeatedly tying, Harini went head-to-head with Vikram Raju, 12, in the spell-off, a
format that tested the contestants on how many words they could
correctly spell within 90 seconds. And then she finally took down Vikram in the bee’s first-ever
lightning-round tiebreaker on Thursday night.
“I think honestly so surreal, it’s my fourth time at the Bee,” Harini said on stage holding the trophy. “This is such a dream, this is my fourth bee and I’m just so overwhelmed.” Of the first-ever spell-off, Harini said: “At first I was a little uneasy and I decided to take it in stride … I just had to take a deep breath and tell myself to go out there and do my best and whatever happens, happens.”
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| Harini Logan, 14, celebrates with her family. |
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| Vikram Raju's family console him, but at 12 he can enter again next year. |
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4 comments:
What a brave boy. And what a kind man to encourage and support him. Everybody needs such a person now and then and when we can give back we should do it. The world would be a better place if we care about the needs of the persons next to us. Is this called compassion?
Thanks, Elenor. Yes compassion and empathy seem in short demand around the world, yet if we look we can always fins a kind soul doing their part.
We would perish without hope. Your Hope is beauftiful. :-)
Thank you, John, we are in a strange time. You are so right, we wouldn't survive without hope.
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