Upper St. Clair School District

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District Highlights

Feb. 20, 2018

School Spelling Bee winners advance to regional competition

Five Upper St. Clair students will advance to the 68th Annual Western Pennsylvania Spelling Bee set for Saturday, March 10, 2018, at Robert Morris University.

To qualify for the regional competition, Noshi Dabas, Zahra Hossain, Jhoran Laffin, Priyanka Palayekar and Emiliano Sobarzo each finished first in his/her school’s spelling bee. The school-level spelling bees, open to students in grades 4 – 8, were sponsored by the Upper St. Clair Parent Teacher Council.

Students up through grade 8 from throughout a 26-county region will compete at Robert Morris University. The winner of the Western Pennsylvania Spelling Bee will receive an all-expense paid trip to compete at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. Bee Week 2018 will take place May 27-June 1, 2018.

Upper St. Clair’s school-level results are provided below.

Baker Elementary School

First Place: Noshi Dabas with a winning word of “ricochet”

Second Place: Nikhil Chandran

Third Place: Zahra Khan

Fourth Place: Anvita Talasela

Fifth Place: Sara Gillespie

Eisenhower Elementary School:

First Place: Emiliano Sobarzo with a winning word of “facilitate”

Second Place: Roha Pandya

Third Place: Lylah Kateeb

Fourth Place: Artie McCallum

Fifth Place: Danny Angelov

Streams Elementary School:

First Place: Zahra Hossain with a winning word of “conspiracy”

Second Place: Seth Williams

Third Place: Isabella Donnelly

Fourth Place: Hudson Honeycott

Fifth Place: Kaia Petrick

Boyce Middle School

First Place: Jhoran Laffin with a winning word of “nunnery”

Second Place: Eitan Schwartz

Third Place: Anushka Patil

Fourth Place: Kristen Albertini

Fifth Place: Shriya Narasimhan

Fort Couch Middle School

First Place: Priyanka Palayekar with a winning word of “architectural”

Second Place: Keshav Narasimhan

Third Place: Daniel Wang

Fourth Place: Arunprakash Vasudevan

Fifth Place: Shana Reddy

The Upper St. Clair School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex, disability or any other legally protected classification in the employment or in the administration of any of its educational programs and activities. Announcement of this policy is in accordance with state and federal laws including Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, Sections 503 and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act.