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Hillsboro Teen Going to National Spelling Bee
After a second-place finish last year, Vipanchi Mungara takes the title and wins a trip to the finals
E-P-U-L-A-T-I-O-N.
Epulation.
And by knowing that, Vipanchi Mungara, a seventh-grader at Carden Cascade Academy in Hillsboro took home the title in this year's Portland Tribbune/Comcast Regional Spelling Be.
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As result, Mungara gets a free trip the Scripps National Spelling Be in May.
She beat out more than 50 students from Washington, Multnomah, and Clackamas Counties.
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She told The Portland Tribune that her interest in spelling comes from a personal place.
"I think part of it is I have such a hard name to spell," she told the paper.
For now, she just one word to worry about:
W-I-N-N-E-R.
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