Annual spelling bee held in the United States of America
Scripps National Spelling Bee
Genre
Spelling bee
Frequency
Annual (late May or early June)
Location(s)
National Harbor, Maryland (2011–2019, 2022–present) Bay Lake, Florida (2021)
Washington, D.C. (1925–1942, 1946–2010)
Years active
1925–1942, 1946–2019, 2021–present
Inaugurated
1925; 99 years ago (1925)
Patron(s)
The E. W. Scripps Company
Website
www.spellingbee.com
The Scripps National Spelling Bee, formerly the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee and often referred to as the National Spelling Bee or simply “the Spelling Bee” in the United States, is an annual spelling bee held in the United States. The bee is run on a not-for-profit basis by The E. W. Scripps Company and is held at a hotel or convention center in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area during the week following Memorial Day weekend. Since 2011, it has been held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center hotel in National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, just outside Washington D.C. It was previously held at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington D.C. from 1996 to 2010.
Although most of its participants are from the U.S., students from countries such as The Bahamas, Canada, the People's Republic of China, India, Ghana, Japan, Jamaica, Mexico, and New Zealand have also competed in recent years. Historically, the competition has been open to, and remains open to, the winners of sponsored regional spelling bees in the U.S. (including territories such as Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, the Navajo Nation, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, along with overseas military bases in Germany and South Korea). Participants from countries other than the U.S. must be regional spelling-bee winners as well.
Contest participants cannot be older than fourteen as of August 31 of the year before the competition; nor can they be past the eighth grade as of February 1 of that year's competition. Previous winners are also ineligible to compete.[1]
In 2019, the Spelling Bee ran out of words that might challenge the contestants and ended up having 8 winners. The 2020 National Spelling Bee competition, originally scheduled for May 24, was suspended and later canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2][3][4] This was the first time it had been canceled since 1945.[5]
^Staff (n.d.). "Eligibility". Scripps National Spelling Bee. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
^"National Spelling Bee called off because of coronavirus". Education Week. The Associated Press. March 20, 2020. Retrieved March 22, 2020.
^Cite error: The named reference How was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Miller, Valerie (April 21, 2020). "SCRIPPS NATIONAL SPELLING BEE CANCELS 2020 NATIONAL FINALS" (Press release). Cincinnati, Ohio: The E.W. Scripps Company. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
^Gleeson, Scott. "Scripps National Spelling Bee canceled for first time since 1945". USA TODAY. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
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