These Minnesota kids will be competing at National Spelling Bee
The upcoming event in Maryland will be the first fully in-person Scripps National Spelling Bee since 2019.
The Scripps National Spelling Bee returns May 31-June 2 with five competitors hailing from Minnesota.
Over 230 spellers will compete in this year's event, which will be held in National Harbor, Maryland and ends with a $50,000 cash prize awarded to the champion. All competitors range in age from 7 to 15.
The Minnesota spellers in this year's bee are:
- Nesika Bellville, an eighth grader at Pine-River Backus High School.
- Moksh Kanukurthy, a fifth grader at Valley Crossing Elementary (Woodbury)
- Brielle Brown, a seventh grader at Maple River Middle School.
- Samuel Passe, an eighth grader at Wabasha-Kellogg Elementary School.
- Levi Gould, a seventh grader with Gould Homeschool in Fergus Falls.
