WARSAW — Washington STEM Academy is proud to announce Mark Mills as this year’s spelling bee champion. Mills is the son of Nicole Lewis, Warsaw, and Mark Mills, Colorado.  Mills competed against 28 other students, making it to round 24 with the winning word “fulcrum.” The spelling bee runner up was Ipshita Singh, daughter of …read more.

MILFORD — The Kosciusko County Spelling Bee kicked off at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 30, at Milford School. A total of 21 student finalists, 17 fifth- and sixth-graders and four seventh- and eighth-graders, competed for the two $2,500 Richard R. Long scholarships and the title of spelling bee champion.

WASHINGTON — Van Wert County eighth grader Una VanWynsberghe correctly spelled both of the words given to her on stage at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C., but did not advance to Thursday’s finals.

INDIANAPOLIS — Eleven million entrants have been narrowed down to 291 spellers in the Scripps National Spelling Bee — and 12 of them are from Indiana:

WARSAW —Warsaw Christian School’s fifth grade spelling champ, Kayleigh Borkholder (on the right), will move on to the Kosciusko County-Wide Spell Bowl on Tuesday, Feb. 3. Kayleigh won the school’s spelling bee with the word concussion. Kara McCrum, sixth grade, was the school’s second place winner.

Six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn’t everything and that losing doesn’t necessarily make you a loser. This musical tells a hilarious tale of overachievers’ angst chronicling the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a …read more.

By DANI BARKEY Chief Accountability Officer, Warsaw Community Schools Sixth grader Kendall Wayne will represent Lincoln Elementary at the Kosciusko County Spelling Bee next month. Wayne is the daughter of David and Monica Wayne of Warsaw. Runner-up was Regan Brouwer, daughter of Brad and Jennifer Brouwer of Winona Lake.

Leesburg Elementary would like to congratulate Cameron Wood as the school’s 2014-2015 Spelling Bee Champion. Wood is in sixth grade in Teresa Jordan’s class and won by spelling the word “bounce.” Cameron will compete in the county spelling bee at Lakeview Middle School on Feb. 3. The second-place winner was Chloe Tomlonson in Treleen Cox’s …read more.

By KAREN KAUFFMAN Warsaw Christian Congratulations to Daniel Zogbi, sixth grader at Warsaw Christian, who won the school spelling bee on the word butterscotch. Runner up is fifth grader, Rachel McLane. The Kosciusko County Spelling Bee will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3, at Lakeview Middle School, with a snow date of Tuesday, …read more.