At 5, Girl Becomes Youngest To Qualify For National Spelling Bee
"Edith Fuller, 5, has booked a trip to the Scripps National Spelling Bee, after she
out-spelled dozens of older competitors to win a regional bee in Tulsa, Okla. The home-schooled student will be the youngest competitor ever in the national spelling bee, which will hold its 90th contest in May."
"The folks at Scripps are already calling Fuller the latest 'spellebrity.'"
"Fuller beat kids more than twice her age at the Scripps Green Country Regional Spelling Bee this past weekend, outlasting dozens of other students and correctly spelling 37 words in around five hours of competition. Her final word, "jnana," is a Sanskrit word that refers to an elevated state of knowledge."
"Other words Fuller had to spell to earn her way to the national bee in Washington, D.C., include sevruga; virgule; Nisei; jacamar; and alim."