Philosophy
This would be a spelling bee first...sister winners.
Spelling excellence runs in the Shivashankar family.
Vanya Shivashankar, 8, won the 2010 Olathe Spelling Bee today and will compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.
The third-grader from Regency Place Elementary School is the younger sister of Kavya Shivashankar from Olathe, who won the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee.
“It’s cool. I wanted to win this,” Vanya said.
She competed against 43 spellers, who had qualified by winning their local school bees. Vanya won in the 36th round of the bee, which was in the auditorium of Frontier Trail Junior High School. She correctly spelled the word “arrondissement” that runner-up Ashwanth Samuel misspelled and then spelled “apparatchik” for the win.
This is the second year in a row that Ashwanth, a seventh-grader at Prairie Trail Junior High School, finished in second place. Last year, he went out in the 16th round, and Kavya won the Olathe bee.
The 2008 runner-up, Erica Chang, a seventh-grader at Frontier Trail Junior High School, participated in this year’s bee after missing the bee in 2009. She took third place, going out in the 17th round.
The bee is sponsored by The Olathe News.
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Philosophy
Her sister Vanya Shivashankar follows her success
This would be a spelling bee first...sister winners.
"Sister of 2009 national champ wins Olathe Spelling Bee and a shot at the title"
by
Kevin Wright
Februrary 11th, 2010
The Kansas City Star
by
Kevin Wright
Februrary 11th, 2010
The Kansas City Star
Spelling excellence runs in the Shivashankar family.
Vanya Shivashankar, 8, won the 2010 Olathe Spelling Bee today and will compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.
The third-grader from Regency Place Elementary School is the younger sister of Kavya Shivashankar from Olathe, who won the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee.
“It’s cool. I wanted to win this,” Vanya said.
She competed against 43 spellers, who had qualified by winning their local school bees. Vanya won in the 36th round of the bee, which was in the auditorium of Frontier Trail Junior High School. She correctly spelled the word “arrondissement” that runner-up Ashwanth Samuel misspelled and then spelled “apparatchik” for the win.
This is the second year in a row that Ashwanth, a seventh-grader at Prairie Trail Junior High School, finished in second place. Last year, he went out in the 16th round, and Kavya won the Olathe bee.
The 2008 runner-up, Erica Chang, a seventh-grader at Frontier Trail Junior High School, participated in this year’s bee after missing the bee in 2009. She took third place, going out in the 17th round.
The bee is sponsored by The Olathe News.
National Spelling Bee champion Kavya Shivashankar back home
- Spelling Bee Soon
Local participant Swetha Jasti will be in Washington this summer. Swetha Jasti, 13, a 7th grade student at Chisholm Trail Middle School, wipes away a tear as her mother, Padmaja Vuyyuru looks over her trophy after she won the Olathe District Spelling...
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There was a winner and "...also plenty of drama before the finals, thanks to an unpopular move that had some spellers and the parents claiming the bee was unfair and had kowtowed too much to television." Trouble in "Beeland"? "Cleveland's Anamika...
- All In The Family?...the Shivashankar Sisters
Olathe Spelling Bee champ, Vanya Shivashankar, left, is in Washington D.C., this week to compete in the 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee, following in her sister Kavya Shivashankar’s footsteps. Kavya won the national spelling bee last year. Her sister...
- National Spelling Bee Champion Kavya Shivashankar Back Home
Busy as a bee the past week, National Spelling Bee champion Kavya Shivashankar returns to her Olathe, Kansas home. Kavya Shivashankar..."Laodicean"...Scripps' Spelling Bee winner...
- Kavya Shivashankar..."laodicean"...scripps' Spelling Bee Winner
Congratulations to local girl Kavya Shivashankar the 2009 Scripps' Spelling Bee winner. "Spelling Bee 2009: Kavya Shivashankar Wins on Laodicean" by Michael David Smith May 28th, 2009 FANHOUSE Kavya Shivashankar, an eighth grader from Olathe,...