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We’re thrilled to pieces for the newest Scripps National Spelling Bee star, Snigdha Nandipati. Snigdha, 14, started spelling on the way to kindergarten every morning with her father, the Associated Press reports. He would give her words he saw on billboards and road signs, and she would do her best to spell them correctly. In third grade, she began spelling competitively, and the rest is history.

 

 

This year’s Scripps Bee was a record-breaking one. The competition, which started last week, featured the youngest speller in the Bee’s history, 6-year-old Lori Anne Madison. But it was Snigdha who triumphed with the word “guetapens,” which is an ambush or a trap—bonus points for including that one in your next essay!

 

Snigdha dreams of being a doctor, but according to her Mom, she thinks that’ll be a cakewalk after competing in the spelling bee. For now, though, we hope she’s relaxing and enjoying her hobbies—coin collecting and Sherlock Holmes, natch.

 

Rock on, girlie!
 
 

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hey mods,
i am an AMAZING SPELLER literally. I am the best speller in my class (6,7,and 8th combined. BTW my class is pretty small. 2 8th graders, 7 seventh graders, and 6 sixth graders) even though my class is small, i can spell anything even if i only get a 8 second look at the word. my school doesnt do the spelling bee, so would i have to sign up as homeschooled? or do you guys know? Thanks A Ton!

Hey girl, I don't know how your school works, so you should ask your guidance counselor or a teacher. Good luck!
Meghan D.

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by loppyears12 on 6/22/2012 9:11:33 PM

 
 

If anybody needs advice on anything leave a comment on my profile and I'll try to get back to you ASAP. Thanks!Smile

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by olivia192000 on 6/11/2012 9:57:53 AM

 
 

congrats thats cool!

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by Miepster99 on 6/8/2012 1:35:11 PM

 
 

That is awesome! Congratulations to Snigdha! My mom says that I would enjoy being an English professor or a journalist when I get older because I'm so good at English/spelling/writing, but I've never even heard of guetapens! It'd be extremely hard to win a Spelling Bee, so I'm always amazed by the people that do! And I think it's great that her dad taught her how to spell when she was so young. Smile

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by teamjacob0625 on 6/5/2012 8:40:22 PM

 
 

I also heard her dad wrote a computer program to help with the pronunciation and spelling and that she practiced every day for hours. That just proves if you want it bad enough you can get it and it helps if your dad is a computer genius to write a program like that.

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by luckykel on 6/5/2012 7:09:38 PM

 
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