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New Scripps National Spelling Bee Study List Time to break from the traditional Spell It! More words than ever – you won’t mind one bit. There’s a new list coming soon, you will see. Words of the Champi...

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/Meet-the-Plano-Coach-Who-Helps-Spell-Success-for-Bee-Champions-510776051.html

Meet the Coach Who Helps 'Spell' Success for Bee Champions For the second year in a row, the Dallas-Fort Worth Region held the top spots at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. A local coach shares their secrets to success.

Congrats to all 16 spellers. Rooting for the Dallas 4: Abhijay Kodali, Hephzibah Sujoe, Rohan Raja and Sohum Sukhatankar 👍😊

These are the 16 spellers who will compete tonight on ESPN, for the 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee championship.

State-by-state: Texas 4, California 3, Missouri 2, New Jersey 2, Alabama 1, Florida 1, Maryland 1, Mississippi 1, Pennsylvania 1.

Cool little clip about pronunciations and the ace pronouncer!

This Man Can Pronounce Every Word in the Dictionary Pop quiz. Try pronouncing the following. Ready? Go. Elucubrate. Smaragdine. Scherenschnitte. Head scratchers, huh? Not for Jacques Bailly. As the official pr...

Friends- Last evening, we had a wonderful experience and a most surreal feeling at the 42nd Anand Bazaar, a festive occasion celebrating India’s 72nd Independence Day. It was organized and hosted by one of Dallas’ oldest, largest and most prestigious community organizations, the India Association of North Texas.

We have attended this annual event many times before, but this time we were truly honored and humbled by the warm and friendly reception we have got, in front of an amazing audience of several thousands and some esteemed dignitaries.

A heartfelt thank you to everyone at the India Association of North Texas for recognizing me and Geetha for our coaching efforts, and for inviting GeoSpell Academy and our champion spellers to march in the parade alongside the Grand Marshalls: Hon’ble Congressman, Pete Sessions, and Hon’ble Dallas County Judge, Clay Jenkins.

We are also thankful to the Congressman Sessions and Judge Jenkins for spending a few of their valuable minutes with us discussing how they and their families closely follow the spelling bee every year 🙂

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Karthik, Naysa, Grace and Chetan on NPR/KERA:

http://keranews.org/post/top-spellers-north-texas-age-out-bees-they-turn-coaching-retirement

As Top Spellers In North Texas Age Out Of Bees, They Turn To Coaching In Retirement “Koinonia,” a noun meaning a body of believers or spiritual communion, is the last word Karthik Nemmani spelled correctly to win this year’s Scripps

Such an honor to be recognized on the pious stage of the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial, on a serene morning of the Fathers Day and the International Yoga Day, and in the solemn presence of a radiant audience of hundreds practicing yoga in the beautiful Thomas Jefferson Park!! Thank you again, Prasad garu, Rao garu, Shabnam ji and everyone at MGMNT..

Congrats again to our three lil’ champions: Karthik Nemmani, Naysa Modi, Abhijay Kodali. Sincere thanks to their dads and moms for giving us a chance to be a part of their incredible journey!

Finally, a shout out to good friends, Anuradha, Ram and others who helped us with the photos and videos.. thank you everyone!

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Congrats Karthik.. we are so proud of you!! Congrats to all the spellers on stage tonight and especially our fabulous top four: Karthik, Naysa, Abhijay and Jashun!! Thanks to all our students and their parents for their incredible time and effort 👍

Dallas, we’re bringing home the much coveted trophy!! 11 million contestants to begin the year and the final 3 are from from our city!! What an amazing feeling this.. can’t sleep tonight 🙂

Round 14: 1 out; all remaining 4 are our spellers 👍🙂

Round 13: 0 out

Round 12: 1 out, 5 in; 4 of our spellers still in

Round 11: 2 out, 6 in; 4 of our spellers still in

Round 10: 1 out, 8 in; 4 of our spellers still in

Round 9: 7 out, 9 in; 4 of our spellers in

Here they are! The 16 spellers who will advance to tonight's final rounds of championship spelling. For whom are you rooting?

First Row:
326: Phoebe Smith, Morton, Pennsylvania
484: Abhijay Kodali, Dallas, Texas
447: Naysa Modi, Dallas, Texas
192: Jashun Paluru, Brookston, Indiana
315: Sravanth Malla, Thieles, New York

Second Row:
60: Simone Kaplan, Miami, Florida
50: Aisha Randhawa, Riverside, California
15: Enya Hubers, Burlington, Ontario, Canada
290: Shruthika Padhy, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
471: Karthik Nemmani, McKinney, Texas
133: Tara Singh, Louisville, Kentucky
98: Erin Howard, Birmingham, Alabama

Third Row:
72: Paul Hamrick, Salinas, California
80: Anisha Rao, Dublin, California
460: Rohan Raja, Carrollton, Texas
279: Navneeth Murali, Neptune, New Jersey

Round 8: 16 in, 2 out; 5 of our spellers still in

Break for now. The final 16 to face off tonight at 8:30 pm EST on ESPN

Congrats and best wishes to all 16

Round 7: 18 in, 6 out; 5 of our spellers in

Round 6: 24 in, 6 out; 5 of our spellers in

Round 5: 30 spelled correctly; all our 6 still in 🙂

Round 5: 3 out and 30 in; Our 6 are still in

Round 4: 33 spelled correctly, 8 got out. All 6 of our spellers are still in 👍🙂

Congrats to all the 41 Finalists including our six: Jashun, Naysa, Rohan, Karthik, Abhijay, Sohum!! Best wishes for the Finals tomorrow..

Friends- It’s that exciting Scripps National Spelling Bee week and the buzz is unmistakably ON. Congrats and best wishes to all the competing spellebrities.. and especially so to our champion GeoSpell students:

#192 - Jashun Paluru
#434 - Harini Logan
#447 - Naysa Modi
#450 - Srikar Chamarthi
#460 - Rohan Raja
#471 - Karthik Nemmani
#472 - Raj Papineni
#474 - Nairit Sarkar
#484 - Abhijay Kodali
#506 - Sohum Sukhatankar

Proud of you all..

Final day - Media interviews, awards and closing ceremony! Our sincere thanks to all the champion student participants and their amazingly supportive parents, volunteers, vendors, partners and our team: Geetha, Chetan, Kavya, Arun Vittala, Champa, etc. Couldn't have done it without them! Hosting our first Academic Olympiad was an incredible experience and, hopefully, there are many more to come in the future. Finally, thank you all awesome friends for your blessings, likes, comments and shares of our pictures and posts! 🏆🏆🏆

Day 1 - Awards