Sean Martin
March 30th, 2006, 12:35 PM
Homeschooler wins regional spelling bee
It was somewhere between the seventh and 17th round of Sunday's regional spelling bee when announcer Feliks Banel took his eyes off the final two contestants and cut the tension that transfixed the crowd at Town Hall.
"Anybody watch the University of Washington-Connecticut (basketball) game Friday night?" he asked the 300-plus crowd waiting to see who would advance to the 79th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee in May in Washington, D.C. "This is kind of like the overtime period."
After the sixth round, only two of the top spellers from 76 King and Snohomish county schools remained -- eighth-grader Alex Murray of The Overlake School in Redmond and sixth-grader Elizabeth Zhang, representing Kelsey Creek Home School Center in Bellevue.
When Zhang was finally crowned champion by correctly spelled "ephedrine" -- a tiebreaking word -- she stood nearly motionless.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/264469_spellingbee27.html?source=rss
Homeschool student wins top honors at math contest
Glen Dower, a Cascade County homeschool student, was one of four students to win top honors at the State Mathcounts contest held last week at Montana State University in Bozeman.
Mathcounts is a combination math coaching and competition program. Students are tested on such topics as probability, statistics, linear algebra and polynomials. The competition consists of written tests and a fast-paced oral match.
The purpose of the program is to motivate junior high school students in mathematics and interest them in technology-related careers. Widely recognized as an effective middle school mathematics coaching and competition program, Mathcounts is celebrating its 23rd anniversary.
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060326/NEWS01/603260311/1002
Home Schooler Wins Geography Bee
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Nathaniel Cornelius, qualifying for the
National Geographic Bee earlier this year.
WASHINGTON (AP) A 13-year-old home schooled youth from Minnesota won the 2005 National Geographic Bee on Wednesday.
Nathaniel Cornelius topped young people from across the nation to win a $25,000 college scholarship. He is the son of Craig and Michele Cornelius.
The winning question: "Lake Gatun, an artificial lake that constitutes part of the Panama Canal system, was created by damming which river?"
The answer: Chagres River.
http://wcco.com/localnews/local_story_145131037.html
It was somewhere between the seventh and 17th round of Sunday's regional spelling bee when announcer Feliks Banel took his eyes off the final two contestants and cut the tension that transfixed the crowd at Town Hall.
"Anybody watch the University of Washington-Connecticut (basketball) game Friday night?" he asked the 300-plus crowd waiting to see who would advance to the 79th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee in May in Washington, D.C. "This is kind of like the overtime period."
After the sixth round, only two of the top spellers from 76 King and Snohomish county schools remained -- eighth-grader Alex Murray of The Overlake School in Redmond and sixth-grader Elizabeth Zhang, representing Kelsey Creek Home School Center in Bellevue.
When Zhang was finally crowned champion by correctly spelled "ephedrine" -- a tiebreaking word -- she stood nearly motionless.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/264469_spellingbee27.html?source=rss
Homeschool student wins top honors at math contest
Glen Dower, a Cascade County homeschool student, was one of four students to win top honors at the State Mathcounts contest held last week at Montana State University in Bozeman.
Mathcounts is a combination math coaching and competition program. Students are tested on such topics as probability, statistics, linear algebra and polynomials. The competition consists of written tests and a fast-paced oral match.
The purpose of the program is to motivate junior high school students in mathematics and interest them in technology-related careers. Widely recognized as an effective middle school mathematics coaching and competition program, Mathcounts is celebrating its 23rd anniversary.
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060326/NEWS01/603260311/1002
Home Schooler Wins Geography Bee
http://www.sermonaudio.com/newsimages/19666.jpg
Nathaniel Cornelius, qualifying for the
National Geographic Bee earlier this year.
WASHINGTON (AP) A 13-year-old home schooled youth from Minnesota won the 2005 National Geographic Bee on Wednesday.
Nathaniel Cornelius topped young people from across the nation to win a $25,000 college scholarship. He is the son of Craig and Michele Cornelius.
The winning question: "Lake Gatun, an artificial lake that constitutes part of the Panama Canal system, was created by damming which river?"
The answer: Chagres River.
http://wcco.com/localnews/local_story_145131037.html