(Mercer Island, WA) On Sunday March 28th, the best spellers in the Puget Sound area gathered to test their skills at the King and Snohomish County Regional Spelling Bee. This year, Kela Harrington, 7th grader at Islander Middle School, won the regional bee and will be representing the Mercer Island School District at the National Spelling Bee on June 2nd, 2010 in Washington D.C. The Scripps National Spelling Bee is largest national non-sports competitive event available to Elementary and Middle school students. Each year, about 10,000,000 children participate in the Scripps National Spelling Bee qualifying process.
Read more about the regional competition at:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011468321_spellingbee29m.html
http://www.king5.com/video/featured-videos/Top-speller-prepares-to-face-down-competition-in-nations-capital-89566592.html
For more information about the national bee, visit http://www.spellingbee.com/
Jonathan Harrington
