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The Sorin family is heading to Washington D.C. This week for the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
From left to right is 7-year-old Julie, father Daniel Sorin, 11-year-old Jason Sorin, who won the Duke University Regional Spelling Bee and is competing at the national level; and his mother, Deborah Sorin. Photo by April Dudash Five thousand words down, 3,000 to go. After school, Triangle Day School fifth grader Jason Sorin heads home, eats a snack, finishes his homework and then settles into a big, comfy chair where he pores over thousands of potential spelling bee words. Jason is heading to the on Sunday. He placed first in the eighth annual Duke University Regional Spelling Bee in March after competing against 58 students from Durham and Orange counties and emerging victorious after a. To prepare for the national competition May 28 through June 3 in Washington D.C., Jason’s mother, Deborah, found 8,000 words that have been used at past school spelling bees and organized them in a spreadsheet. Almost every day, she and Jason spend a half-hour spelling with the goal of getting 100 new words correct each day.
The Sorin family even bought a third edition Merriam-Webster dictionary off eBay to help Jason study for the bee. “It actually has notches in the sides for the letters,” Jason said about his dictionary. “Some of the words are kind of on the borderline between words and nonsense, like ‘toffee-nosed’ or ‘mugwumpery.’” Jason, 11, will be among 291 spellers from around the country competing for first place at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The Duke Office of Durham & Regional Affairs, which sponsors the regional bee every year for Durham and Orange counties, is also sponsoring the Sorin family’s trip to D.C. Jason will be Speller No.
22 out of 291. He is used to competing – He participated in the North Carolina National Geographic State Bee in March as well as tests his literary knowledge as part of his school’s “Battle of the Books” team. He is constantly reading, most recently Terry Pratchett fantasy novels.
His parents said that he has a terrific memory and gleans the spelling and meaning of words from books he reads. “Hey Jay, what do you do when you’re not studying?” asked his dad, Daniel, who is a professor in the Duke Electrical and Computer Engineering department. “Depends on what you call studying,” Jason responded.
“If reading counts as studying, I probably would answer, ‘Not really much.’” Becoming a nationally recognized speller requires more than just studying. There is also an element of pomp and circumstance involved. Jason’s class at Triangle Day School threw him a party with “Congratulations” balloons, cake and sherbet, and his classmates have even taken spelling bee word tests together for fun. At the national bee, spellers will participate in preliminary rounds of written spelling tests, multiple choice vocabulary tests and onstage oral spelling to determine if they will move on to the finals on June 1. The spellers also have scheduled time to sightsee and attend social events such as tours of George Washington’s Mount Vernon and a barbecue at Nationals Park baseball stadium.
At the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Jason’s family, including his 7-year-old sister, Julie, and both sets of grandparents, will be in the crowd cheering him on. His parents said they are most excited to see him onstage and that the bee gives their son the opportunity to make 290 new friends. Jason said he’s most excited about the competition itself. “When it’s in a competition format, everything seems more fun,” he said. “It seems that I’m better under pressure.” The Scripps National Spelling Bee will be broadcast on ESPN May 31 and June 1. For more information about the 2017 competition, visit the.
Sean Dougherty, Sean Dougherty-USA TODAY NETWORK NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Sometimes, just one letter makes the difference. After a fierce first half of final round competition here at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, only 16 spellers will continue on to the prime time finals airing on ESPN Thursday at 8:30 p.m. It took eight rounds of Bee action featuring its largest pool of spellers ever to whittle down the competition to the remaining spellers, who now have their chance to claim the grand prize: $40,000 cash, the Scripps trophy, trips to New York and Los Angeles for national television appearances and bragging rights as the nation's best speller. Among the words missed by only one letter during Thursday's morning rounds: 'amyloid,' 'exegete,' 'sidereal,' 'paregoric,' and 'mydriasis,' among others. Naysa Modi, 12, of Frisco, Texas, said she's 'of course nervous' heading into Thursday night's final.
'It's really, really scary, but then at the same time, I feel really lucky that I get to go up there in the first place,' Naysa said. She tied for seventh last year. Forty-one spellers made it to Thursday morning's final at the Gaylord National Harbor Convention Center. And had it not been for a new invitational program, 16 of those spellers wouldn't have made it to the competition in the first place. More from the Bee: His dad won the National Spelling Bee in 1985. Now, he competed for the 2018 title Jacques Bailly: He's read every word since 2003 until this year. Meet the voice of the Scripps Spelling Bee.
RSVBee allowed for students to compete if they didn't win a state or regional bee and they either won their school bee or had competed at the National Bee in a previous year. The new program was the reason why a record-breaking pool of 515 spellers made it to the tournament this year.
Overall, 238 RSVBee students competed on the national stage. More: Why the Scripps National Spelling Bee has its largest pool of spellers ever Jake Faulk, 14, of Denver, made it to Thursday morning's rounds in his first National Bee after qualifying through the RSVBee program. 'It's really cool that the program exists,' Jake told USA TODAY earlier this week. 'It helps especially for states like Colorado where there's just not a whole lot of opportunity for people to go, and yet there's still a lot of good spellers there.' But like 25 others, he misspelled one of his words Thursday morning — for Jake, it was 'lochan,' meaning a 'body of water smaller than a lake but larger than a pool.'
Four RSVBee qualifiers will move on to the second half of the finals. On-stage competition began Tuesday after spellers took a written test, which played a large part in determining which spellers qualified for the finals. Each speller stood in front of the microphone and saw the bright lights at least once as the Bee trimmed its massive pool Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Yet even with the larger pool, returning spellers — like Naysa — retained their competitive edge. Eleven spellers who made previous finals will continue to Thursday night and more than half of finalists overall had been to a prior National Bee.
'It is quite difficult,' said Jacques Bailly, the Bee's official pronouncer since 2003, of making it back to the final stage. 'You have to keep studying. You have to keep on top of your game.' Bailly was the 1980 Scripps champion. More: How these spellers made it to the Scripps National Spelling Bee finals — again.
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Jack Gruber, Jack Gruber-USA TODAY NETWORK Also among the familiar faces Thursday night: Erin Howard, 13, of Huntsville, Ala., who tied for seventh last year. She said she's felt pressure to continue the trend but is staying calm. 'This is my second time so of course I hope to improve, but I'm here already so I'm not that nervous,' she said. Erin, who said she studies using her computer, air-typed 'heautophany' on-stage and had a smile on her face even before she finished spelling the word correctly in round eight. She skated through to Thursday night's final. Follow Ryan Miller on Twitter @RyanWMiller.