The 2010 City Written Spelling contest will be held Thursday, February 18. We are expecting 260 spellers from 30 schools. The top 25 spellers on this 100-word test will qualify for the DPS City Oral Spelling Championships and the Colorado State Spelling Bee.
2010 City Written Spelling Contest
Students from RMSEL preparing for the City Written are (top row) Aysia Nealey, Danielle Beram, Jack Lommen, (middle row) Brodie Sullivan, Annika Moen, Sara Khorchidian, Helena Lawrence, (bottom row) Sayka Hatayama, Max Stein, and Lily Allen.
The semantics team from Kaiser Elementary (back row) Stacy White, Mariah Martinez, Ashley Martinez, Raina Brown, Ricky Ayala, (front row) Dillon Lucero, Benjamin Wilkin, Mya Robinson, and Nam Duong.
2009 "City Orals" Spelling Bee
Championship round spellers at City Orals are Adam McSweeney (Smiley, 8th grade), Will Paton (Hamilton, 7th grade), Mali Garret-Mills (Smiley 7th grade), Aubin Fefley (Hamilton, 7th grade), Raphael Lawrence (Morey, 6th grade), Brian King (Connections Academy, 7th grade), Chloe Briney (Morey, 8th grade), and Evan Shigaya (Hamilton, 8th grade.)
After 250 words and 25 rounds, Raphael Lawrence and Chloe Briney were declared co-champions at the 2009 City orals Spelling Bee.
2009 Colorado State Spelling Bee Click on "State Spelling Bee - Results."
The 69th Colorado State Spelling Bee was held Saturday, March 14, at the Colorado Convention Center. 265 students from all over the state of Colorado qualified for this event. Of these, the top 33 spellers as determined by a morning written test qualified for the afternoon oral spelling bee. Eleven of our DPS spellers qualified for the state finals: They were:
3rd place Jacob Durso-Sabina, Hamilton Middle School 5th place Brian King, Connections Academy 8th place Chloe Briney, Morey Middle School 8th place Alec Sarché, Hamilton Middle School 13th place Will Paton, Hamilton Middle School 16th place Josh Spielman, Southmoor Elementary 16th place Evan Shigaya, Hamilton Middle School 16th place Aubin Fefley, Hamilton Middle School 16th place Linda Schiller, Morey Middle School 21st place Danny Sarché, Southmoor Elementary 28th place Grace McCabe, Morey Middle School
