CAN YOU SPELL FUN?
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
HOLLYWOOD THEATRE / PORTLAND, OR
Portland Tribune/COMCAST
Regional Spelling Bee
March 18, 2017
HOLLYWOOD THEATRE / PORTLAND, OR
Portland Tribune/COMCAST
Regional Spelling Bee
ABOUT THE BEE
The Portland Tribune launched the Regional Spelling Bee in 2002 to give Portland-area students an opportunity to compete on a national level.
Each year, the Portland Tribune/COMCAST Regional Spelling Bee invites fourth through eighth grade students attending Multnomah, Washington, Yamhill and Clackamas county public, private, alternative and home school groups to compete in the regional spelling bee. Students advance to the regional bee after winning their individual school bees.
The winner of the Portland Tribune/COMCAST Regional Spelling Bee will advance with more than 250 students from around the country and the world compete in the 2017 Scripps National Spelling Bee.
To compete in the national bee, most students are sponsored by local newspapers. Along with competing in the bee, the winning student will have the opportunity to tour Washington, D.C., and participate in organized social events with other spellers.
The Scripps National Spelling Bee was started by the Louisville-Courier-Journal in 1925 with nine sponsoring newspapers and nine contestants. It was first made famous by the movies “Spellbound” and “Akeelah and the Bee”. Now ESPN airs it live and Network TV airs the final rounds live, which has greatly increased community awareness of the event.
2017 Portland Tribune/COMCAST Regional Spelling Bee Champion
2017 Portland Tribune/COMCAST Regional Spelling Bee Champion
Congratulations to our winner Anna-Livia Regan, 14, who incidentally was also contestant No. 1.
From Southwest Portland, she attends ACCESS Academy, an alternative accelerated program for gifted students. Her parents are both teachers, her mother at Lewis & Clark College and father at Portland State University. She will advance to the famous Scripps National Spelling Bee, all expenses paid, in Washington, D.C. The 90th Scripps National Spelling Bee will be held during “Bee Week," May 28 through June 3. Finals are broadcast on ESPN.
MEET OUR SPELLERS
THE BEE VIDEO
To get a real feel for what it the Portland Tribune/COMCAST Regional Spelling Bee
is all about check out our promo teaser from last years event.
PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS
Spellers are 4th-8th grade students from Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas and Yamhill county schools. All have won their school spelling bees and are ready to compete for the big prize – an all-paid trip to compete with the best spellers in the country!
CHECK OUT THE PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS:
ASTOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / BOONES FERRY PRIMARY SCHOOL / CARDEN CASCADE ACADEMY / CEDAR PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL / CHRIST THE KING CATHOLIC SCHOOL / CONESTOGA MIDDLE SCHOOL / CORBETT SCHOOL / DA VINCI MIDDLE SCHOOL / DAMASCUS MIDDLE SCHOOL / EAST ORIENT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / EDY RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / ESTACADA JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL / FIVE OAKS MIDDLE SCHOOL / FOREST HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / FRENCH AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL / HALLINAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / HAZELBROOK MIDDLE SCHOOL / HEALTH & SCIENCE SCHOOL / HIGHLAND PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL / INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BEAVERTON / ISLAMIC SCHOOL OF MET / J CLYDE HOPKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / LAKE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / LAKE OSWEGO MIDDLE SCHOOL / LAKERIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL / MEADOW PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL / MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / MLA MIDDLE SCHOOL / MOUNTAIN VIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL / MT TABOR MIDDLE SCHOOL / MULTISENSORY LEARNING ADADEMY / OAK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / RALEIGH HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / RIVER GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / RIVER MILL ELEMENTARY / SPRINGVILLE K-8 SCHOOL / ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC SCHOOL / ST. THOMAS MORE SCHOOL / STOLLER MIDDLE SCHOOL / THE PHONICS PHACTORY / THOMAS R FOWLER MIDDLE SCHOOL / THREE RIVERS CHARTER SCHOOL / VILLAGE HOME EDUCATION RESOURCE / WESTGATE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL / WESTRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL / WHITFORD MIDDLE SCHOOL / WINTERHAVEN SCHOOL
"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
- Maya Angelou
"Education breed confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace."
- Confucius
"Success does not consist of never making mistakes. But in never making the same one a second time."
- George Bernard Shaw
Anna-Livia Regan, Winner, ACCESS Academy
Lakmini Gunaratne, Aloha-Huber Park School
Keith Taylor, Archer Glen Elementary School
Talia Valdez, Boones Ferry Primary School
Vipanchi Mungara, Carden Cascade Academy
Gabriella Pribyl, Cedar Park Middle School
Grace Lee, Christ the King Catholic School
Madeline Marlin, Conestoga Middle School
Abigail Santosa, Corbett School
Simon Carr, da Vinci Arts Middle School
Aiden Gardiner, East Orient Elementary School
Vivian Wheeler, Edy Ridge Elementary School
Amanda Vasconcellos, Five Oaks Middle School
John Mays, French American International School
Jasmine Quast, Hallinan Elementary School
Lily Hughes, Hazelbrook Middle School
Chloe Mohr, Highland Park Middle School
Sarah Bashir, Oregon Islamic Academy
Cohen Brandl, J. Clyde Hopkins Elementary School
Megan Chaing, Lake Oswego Middle School
Jack Morgan, Lakeridge Middle School
Hannah Brown, Middleton Elementary School
Olivia Hodge, MLA Middle School
Paulina Coffin, Mt. Tabor Middle School
Alicia Benitez, Multisensory Learning Academy
Leo Jackson, Oak Creek Elementary School
Kyle Farnsworth, River Grove Elementary School
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Nathaniel Gibb, River Mill Elementary
AnnaLee Klum, St. John The Baptist Catholic School
Josh Litchfield, St. Thomas More School
Padmini Bhagavatula, Runner-Up, Stoller Middle School
Titus Dumitru, The Phonics Phactory
Tyler Emerson, Thomas R Fowler Middle School
Ethan Yip, Three Rivers Charter School
Zoe Elliott, Village Home Education Resource
Tatum Brintnall, Westridge Elementary School
Karina Bransfield, Whitford Middle School
Addison Landis, Winterhaven School
"I think that it's almost a lost art."
- Dave Miller / Think Out Loud Host / OPB
"I like looking at the etymology
of a word...their origins and
where they come from. "
- Vipanchi Mungara / Carden Cascade Academy
"I did the Spelling Bee last year and it was really fun so I decided to do it again this year."
- Lily Segna / Forest Park
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