The 2024 San Diego County Scripps Regional Spelling Bee will begin at the Jackie Robinson YMCA Thursday, with more than 80 students from grades six to eight competing to represent the county at the National Spelling Bee.
The winner will represent San Diego County at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in the Washington, D.C. area in late May, with semifinals and finals in June.
"I'm excited because the words were really intense and there was no way I could prepare for that," the seventh grader from Mesa Verde Middle School in the Poway Unified School District said. The original field consisted of 231 spellers from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Canada, the Bahamas, Germany and Ghana. There were 59 spellers eliminated in the first round, 33 in the second and 19 in the third, reducing the field to 121 for the fourth round.
Mihir reached the third round of the 2022 national bee. Two San Diego County spellers have won the national bee — Anurag Kashyap in 2005 and Snigdha Nandipati in 2012.
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