In Video: the first SD 19 District-Wide Spelling Bee
Begbie View Teacher-Librarian Eleanor Wilson lays out the rules for the first-ever district-wide spelling bee that was held on Tuesday afternoon. There were 12 contestants from each of the city’s three schools. David F. Rooney photo
By David F. Rooney
School District 19 held it’s first-ever District-Wide Spelling Bee and what a surprise that was. The 12 contestants from all three elementary schools duked it out linguistically for over an hour before the winners were decided: Emily MacLeod took first; Julia McKenzie won second; and Nolan Gale slipped into third.
There were hundreds of kids in the gym at Begbie View Elementary for the event and a lot of them even managed to sit still through the hour-long contest.
The Current video-recorded the entire event and you can watch the spelling bee in four parts:
And here are all the contestants! The top three spellers were Emily MacLeod (left, in back), Julia McKenzie (second from the left in front) and Nolan Gale (back row, center). The other competitors are Lily Michaels, Amelia Brown, Trevor Kozek, Makenna McLaughlin, Colby Johnson, Jaimie Reynolds, Alice Dunkerson, Lane Bull and Sophia Laurence. David F. Rooney photo
