School Spelling Bee winners advance to regional competition-13335
Feb. 11, 2021
School Spelling Bee winners advance to regional competition
To qualify for the regional competition, Finley Garvey, Baker Elementary School; Divya Singh, Eisenhower Elementary School; Lindsey Fitzgerald, Streams Elementary School; Raana Parchuri, Boyce Middle School; and Rohan Mehta, Fort Couch Middle School; 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 have the opportunity to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which will take place in the summer of 2021.
Upper St. Clair’s school-level results are provided below.
Baker Elementary School (grade 4)
First Place: Finley Garvey
Second Place: Hadley Treffinger
Third Place: Abhi Muppavarapu
Fourth Place: Jenny Chemoriya
Fifth Place: Patrick Lewis
Eisenhower Elementary School (grade 4)
First Place: Divya Singh
Second Place: Vivek Sattuluri
Third Place: Anvi Vaishya
Fourth Place: Emily Chen
Fifth Place: Kaaveri Patil
Streams Elementary School (grade 4)
First Place: Lindsey Fitzgerald
Second Place: Nathan Suchta
Third Place: Max Reyes
Fourth Place: Jack Stupar
Fifth Place: Mira Murthy
Boyce Middle School
First Place: Raana Parchuri, grade 5
Second Place: Sam Cranganu, grade 5
Third Place: Avery Moore, grade 5
Fourth Place: Josh Alex-Nimal, grade 6
Fifth Place: Ida Epshteyn, grade 6
Fort Couch Middle School
First Place: Rohan Mehta, grade 8
Second Place: Kesahi Mathanachandran, grade 8
Third Place: Juliya Chemoriya, grade 7
Fourth Place: Eitan Schwartz, grade 8
Fifth Place: Ahmed Elsaidi, grade 7
Last year, Upper St. Clair’s Raana Parchuri, then a fourth grader at Baker Elementary, was crowned champion at the 70th Annual Western Pennsylvania Spelling Bee, which was held in March 2020 at Robert Morris University. Although Raana qualified to compete at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., the event was canceled due to the pandemic.