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WELCOME Denver Public Schools Semantics
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Saturday, January 28.
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2012 Second Spelling Bee
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The second spelling bees were held on Thursday, January 26.
Second spelling bee - list of champions:
West Denver Prep B, Ellis, and Noel at Smiley: Haley Obermeier (Smiley, 6th grade)
Chavez, Montclair, and University Park at DSA: Josh Spielman (DSA, 8th grade)
Blair, Cory, and Trevista at Hill: Bryn Flanigan (Cory, 4th grade)
Randolph, Roberts, and GALS at Centennial: Myranda Valdez (Centennial, 8th grade)
Allie Soliman (Roberts, 8th grade)
Slavens and Lowry at Hamilton: Jackson Hicks (Hamilton, 8th grade)
Grant Ranch, Traylor, and Highline Academy at Southmoor:: Hannah Pederson
(Southmoor, 5th grade)
Gust, Bradley, and West Denver Prep A at RMSEL: Annika Moen (RMSEL, 8th grade)
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| 2011 - 2012 First Spelling Bee |
The first spelling bees were held on Tuesday, December 6.
First spelling bee - list of champions:
Cesar Chavez, Trevista, and West Denver Prep B at Centennial: Myranda Valdez
(Centennial, 8th grade)
Blair, Randolph, and University Park at Smiley: Elizabeth Blackmun (University Park, 5th grade)
DSA, Roberts, and Noel at Hill: Isha Vial (DSA, 6th grade)
Ellis, Montclair, and Lowry at RMSEL: Sara Khorchidian (RMSEL, 8th grade)
Traylor and Gust at Grant Ranch: Candace Sandberg (Grant Ranch, 8th grade)
Cory, Bradley, and Slavens at Southmoor: Tia Karkos (Slavens, 5th grade)
Highline Academy, West Denver Prep A, and GALS at Hamilton: Himanvi Kopuri
(Hamilton, 6th grade)
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| 2011 Colorado State Spelling Bee |
.jpg) Jacob Durso-Sabina of Morey Middle School is state runner-up. After spelling avifauna, garniture, pachinko, geriatrician, cordate, and boniato correctly, Jacob misspelled vitiate to finish in second place. Raphael Lawrence from Hill, Linda Schiller from Morey, and Kevin Vick from Hamilton tied for 8th place. 285 spellers from all over Colorado competed on Saturday and 36 students made it to the oral finals. 15 of those finalists were DPS spellers. This breaks a 41 year old record. State finalists from DPS: |
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Linda Schiller
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Himanvi Kopuri
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Annika Moen
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Kate Burnite
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Kevin Vick
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Sydney Oswald
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Jackson Hicks
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Maddie Kerr |
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Josh Spielman
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Dylan Salzman
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Riley Somo
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Jacob Durso-Sabina |
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Raphael Lawrence
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Danny Sarché |
Sara Khorchidian
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2011 "City Orals" Spelling Bee
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| Champion: Danny Sarché |
Click here for results |
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The "City Orals" District Spelling Bee was held Thursday, March 16. Danny Sarché of Hamilton Middle School spelled tonsorial and quindecillion correctly to claim the title. The runner-up was Linda Schiller of Morey Middle School. Click on "City Orals - Results" for all of the qualifiers.
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2011 "City Written" Spelling Contest
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| Champion: Linda Schiller |
Click here for qualifiers
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238 students from 33 schools participated in the Denver Public Schools City Written Spelling Contest today. Linda Schiller, an 8th grader from Morey Middle School, finished in first place. Linda missed only 6 words on a difficult test that included such words as dioscuric, muishond, pleonasm, lackadaisical, and McJob. The runner-up was Danny Sarché, a 7th grader from Hamilton Middle School. Danny misspelled 7 words on the test. |
City Written Images
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