Final Spelling Bees Commence!

Today is the start of many final spelling bees before the Scripps National Spelling Bee! This is very exciting, but some final Bees do not come until March or April!

For the spellers from the Salt Lake Valley:

Date: March 10, 2012
Location: Juan Diego Catholic High School Auditorium (300 East 11800 South  Draper, Utah 84020)
Time: It's somewhere between 8:30 to 9:00 (I think)

I do not know how many spellers there will be this year, because it seems to double every year! In 2009 there were about twenty spellers, in 2010 there were about 40 spellers, and in 2011 there were about 80 spellers.

For the spellers from Utah Valley/Wasatch Mountain Range/and the other locations around that area:

Date: March 24, 2010
Location: Scera Theater (745 South State Street  Orem, Utah 84058)
Time: I have to find this out, so watch for more details!

Last year, a speller from the Utah Valley advanced to the semifinals. Unfortunately she was eliminated in Round 5 with the word privatim (privatum), but she was outstanding the entire Bee. She has been the only speller from Utah to make it past preliminaries ever since the notorious Round 1 test began in 2002.

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/article_c99ce2ca-62b3-5eef-8969-7e993f8a0b75.html

For the other spellers from around the world, good luck to you all!

I only have two friends remaining in the spelling bee. They are studying very hard, and they want to make it to nationals so badly! If one of them win, I may be at nationals this year!