Danbury Students Compete in National Spelling Bee

Danbury has two representatives at the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

Fourth grader Aahil T. Nishad from Stadley Rough Elementary School and sixth grader Anika R. Malayappan from Broadview Middle School are two of three competitors from Connecticut who have qualified for the nationwide contest.

According to Scripps, a total of 285 spellers will compete for the 2015 title.

Nishad enjoys taking karate and violin classes and dreams of being a software engineer in the future.

Malayappan enjoys practicing crochet and origami as well as Bharat Natyam, an Indian classical dance. She would like to study law and business at Harvard in the future.

Here is a full schedule of this week’s events:

Preliminaries: Wednesday, May 27, 8am – 4:45pm EDT. Streaming live on ESPN3.

Semifinals: Thursday, May 28, 10am – 1pm EDT. Live on ESPN2.

Championship Finals: Thursday, May 28, 8pm – 10pm EDT. Live on ESPN.

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