Spelling Bee Winners 2012

Bret Mason
1/20/2012

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Ridge Park's 2012 Spelling Bee winners Abby Rodriguez and Jonathan Jernigan display their practice books for the upcoming Regional Competition.

 

It took 34 rounds to decide the 2012 Ridge Park Spelling Bee on January 20th.
 
Jonathan Jernigan and Abby Rodriguez battled for the school-wide winner going ten rounds head-to-head before Jonathan correctly spelled bizarre and bankrupt. Abby, the defending school champ, missed bizarre to open the door for Jonathan to win.
 

 

For the first-time, fourth graders were allowed to participate in the school-wide Spelling Bee and Jonathan validated Scripps Howard’s decision to include fourth graders. As a member of Mrs. Forrest’s class, Jonathan dethroned the defending champ and 8th grader in a Bee that could not be finished before the audience had to be dismissed at the end of the day.

 

Both Jonathan and Abby will represent Ridge Park at the Regional Spelling Bee, which will be held February 15 at East Elementary in Grandville.
 
Twenty-nine students competed in the annual event (see list below).
 
In case either Jonathan or Abby cannot compete at the Regional event, another 4th grader from Mrs. Forrest’s class Daniel Ha would compete.  Ha spelled 24 words before missing ‘literati’.
 

 

4th Grade
5th Grade
6th Grade
7th Grade
8th Grade
Sara Meliani
Maranda Totten
Mirza Kornic
Syncere Baty
Abby Rodriguez
Daniel Ha
Bryanna Bobo
Devin Whitby
Dasani Jackson
Hannah Ting
Jonathan Jernigan
Nour Osman
Aiyana Applewhite
Mumina Abdiyow
Naomi Bradshaw
Ahnesty Tolbert
Kaiya Mikel
Iklas Hakeem
 
Sarah Lohroff
 
Abdul Buri
Masanjay Matubeh
 
 
 
Ingel Tucker
Everything Walker
 
 
 
Makael Lewis