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With 12 Letters, Anne Arundel Has a New Top Speller
The winner of the 27th annual Anne Arundel County Spelling Bee will head to the Scripps National competition in May.
Anne Arundel County’s latest Spelling Bee champ is St. Mary’s Elementary School eighth-grader William Rogers, who outlasted 27 other spellers this weekend to win the 27th annual Anne Arundel County Spelling Bee.
The final word? “Remonstrance.” Rogers spelled it in the 13th round, with Alyssa Hall of Annapolis Area Christian School finishing second. Anna Patterson of Annapolis Middle School, Storrie Kulynych-Irvin of the Chesapeake Bay Homeschool Association, and Isabelle Simmons of School of the Incarnation all tied for third.
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William will represent Anne Arundel County at the 2015 Scripps National Spelling Bee in May. William also won a Merriam-Webster’s Third New International Dictionary and a Samuel Louis Sugarman Award certificate and savings bond donated by Jay Sugarman in honor of his father, a lifelong advocate of education.
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