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2010 Colorado State Spelling Bee
Brian King - State Champ!
Brian King and Linda Schiller.
Brian spelled all of these words correctly: guitar, androcentric, klompen, ampere, neologism, jeremiad, basmati, Romaji, euthanasia, asterisk, Dickensian, obreptitious, cornice, monstrance, holoplankton, rudimentary, demure, and traumatropism.
BrianKing, an 8th grader at Connections Academy, DPS on-line school, is the 2010 Colorado State Spelling Bee Champion. Runners-up are LindaSchiller a 7th grader from Morey Middle School and Sam Cyphers a 7th grader from Holy Family Catholic School in Fruita. DylanSalzman a 7th grader from Hill Campus of Arts and Sciences and DannySarché a 6th grader from Hamilton Middle School tied for 5th place. The Denver Public School's last state champion was Melissa Lake of Hill Middle School who won in 1990. When two of the last three remaing spellers misspelled words in the 16th round, Brian correctly spelled "demure" and "traumatropism" to become champion.
The 70th Colorado State Spelling Bee was held Saturday, March 6, at the Colorado Convention Center. 279 students from all over the state of Colorado qualified for this event. Of these, the top 36 spellers as determined by a morning written test qualified for the afternoon oral spelling bee. Ten of our DPS spellers qualified for the state finals. They were:
Champion Brian King, Connections Academy 2nd place Linda Schiller, Morey Middle School 5th place Dylan Salzman, Hill Campus of Arts and Sciences 5th place Danny Sarché, Hamilton Middle School 13th place Jacob Neumann, Morey Middle School 14th place Jacob Durso-Sabina, Hamilton Middle School 17th place Grace McCabe, Morey Middle School 17th place Josh Spielman, Denver School of the Arts 21st place Laurel Rubel, Hamilton Middle School 28th place Kate Burnite, Hamilton Middle School
Brian King
Linda Schiller
Dylan Salzman
Danny Sarché
Jacob Neumann
Jacob Durso-Sabina
Grace McCabe
Josh Spielman
Laurel Rubel
Kate Burnite
2010 City Written Spelling Contest
Co-champions!
GraceMcCabe, an 8th grader from Morey, and DannySarché, a 6th grader from Hamilton, are co-champions of the 2010 City Written Spelling Contest. Grace and Danny each spelled 99 out of 100 words correctly. Click on "City Written - Qualifiers" to see who else qualified for the Colorado State Spelling Bee.
2010 "City Orals" Spelling Bee
BrianKing (No. 5) is the 2010 City Orals spelling champion. Brian is in the 8th grade representing Connections Academy. The runner-up is last year's champion RaphaelLawrence, a 7th grader also from Connections Academy. Rounding out the top five are DylanSalzman (No. 11), a 7th grader at Hill Campus of Arts and Sciences, 3rd place; GraceMcCabe (No. 25), an 8th grader from Morey Middle School, 4th place; and KateBurnite, a 6th grader from Hamilton Middle School, 5th place. Click on "City Orals - Results, Pictures, and Final Words" for more information.
