12-year-old Amelia Hebert is a sixth-grade student at Cathedral-Carmel School in Lafayette. She is among five Louisianans competing in the bee beginning Tuesday.
In general, most youngsters like six-year-old Lori Anne Madison are squarely focused on toys and cartoons. But Madison recently became the youngest person ever to qualify for the Scripps National Spelling Bee in the contest’s 87-year history.
I don't know how something can qualify as both an epic fail and an epic win, but there is a first time for everything. Christopher Ferreria was given the word 'heron' to spell during a school spelling bee and somehow managed to stall for what seemed like an eternity.