At least 60 of 285 contestants are Indian Americans.
AB Wire
WASHINGTON, DC: The 88th Scripps National Spelling Bee got under way Tuesday at Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, MD.
On the first day, all the 285 spellers took the preliminary tests, and 279 of them remained in contention after Rround 2.
The Round 2 and 3 preliminaries are being held on Wednesday. The spellers’ day will end with the one-hour “semifinal test,” which starts at 7 pm.
The semifinals start at 10 am on Thursday. A new champion will be crowned around 10 pm EDT.
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Like the previous editions, Indian Americans, who have won the past seven contests, are heavily represented at the Spelling Bee this year as well. There are at least 60 spellers of Indian American heritage in the competition.
The words contestants spelled the preliminary rounds include “amicable,” “anvil,” “consensus,” “diorama,” “geothermal,” “hypothesis,” “jovial,” “temporal,” and “wikiwiki.”
Following is a partial list of Indian American spellers competing in the 2015 Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Snehaa Ganesh Kumar
Meera Suresh
Sarika Rau
Anika R. Malayappan
Aahil Nishad
Arjun Jagjivan
Vaishnavi Suren
Trishala Kumar
Siyona Mishra
Farzan Shiju
Monisha P. Mahadevan
Vishal Mukesh Thakwani
Summit Kumar
Aniket Nuthalapati
Eric Rohit Errampalli
Uma Kasichainula
Aditya Nadkarni
Tejas Shyamsundar
Ashwin V. Prasad
Munthira Raju
Kushala S.V. Madduru
Vanya Shivashankar
Tara Singh
Abhirami Jeyaseelan
Naysa Modi
Raffae Aman Chowdhury
Selomi G. Dayaprema
Neil S. Brahmbhatt
Srinithi Kanakam
Neha Middela
Dev Jaiswal
Gokul Venkatachalam
Arushi Kalpande
Anish Kumar
Jairam Jagadeesh Hathwar
Sahil Sangwan
Shashwat Patel
Sai Vishudhi Chandrasekhar
Srinath Venkat Mahankali
Harshita M. Shet
Sravanth Mohan Malla
Akshra P. Paimagam
Ashrita Vadlapatla
Rohan Sachdev
Lipika Narisetti
Shiv Sathya Dewan
Manu U. Nair
Aakash Narayan
Atharv Bhave
Smrithi Upadhyayula
Shobha Dasari
Siddharth Krishnakumar
Kiran K. Malik
Ankita Vadiala
Trisha Balakrishnan
Tejas Muthusamy
Ayush Noori
Varun Kukkillaya
Meghna Datta
Ashwin Sankrithi