Colorado whiz kids compete in national spelling bee

Two Colorado kids are competing in Washington, D.C., this week to win the 94th Scripps National Spelling Bee kicking off Tuesday. Details: Aditi Mu...

May 30, 2023
6:20 PM

Two Colorado kids are competing in Washington, D.C., this week to win the 94th Scripps National Spelling Bee kicking off Tuesday. Details: Aditi Muthukumar, 12, a seventh-grade student at Hulstrom Options K-8 School in Northglenn, won the 53-round Colorado State Spelling Bee earlier this year with the word "hylozoism," the Denver Post reports. Sofia Tommey Wu, 10, a fifth-grader at Douglass Elementary School in Boulder, competed in her first school spelling bee at age 7. She recently won Boulder's bee by correctly spelling "dissonance.

Alayna Alvarez