Since 1925, children across America have participated in classroom, school, and regional spelling bees hoping to advance to the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
While only nine spellers participated in that first competition 100 years ago, their legacy lives on in the millions of students who compete at all levels of the spelling bee program today.
In that spirit of competition, Turner Public School students in grades five through eight gathered in the Turner Gymnasium on Tuesday morning, January 21 for a spelling bee show down. After a rotation through all fifteen of the contestants, sixth grad...