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Spelling Bee

 

Five crowned 2024 school Spelling Bee champs

Spelling Bee Winners
Five Upper St. Clair students have been crowned their school’s spelling bee champion – qualifying for the preliminary round of the 74th annual Western Pennsylvania Spelling Bee. Adelyn Stockton, Baker Elementary School; Eli Karambelkar, Eisenhower Elementary School; Alexander Li, Streams Elementary School; Luka Beric, Boyce Middle School; and Raana Parchuri, Fort Couch Middle School, now advance to an online test of vocabulary and spelling.

The top 15 spellers from the preliminary round will move on to the final in-person event, which is set for on Sunday, March 24, 2024, at Point Park University - Pittsburgh Playhouse.

The school-level spelling bees, open to all students in grades 4 – 8, were sponsored by the Baker PTA, Eisenhower PTO, Streams PTO, Boyce PTO, and Fort Couch PTSO.

The Western Pennsylvania Spelling Bee is open to students up through grade 8 from throughout a 27-county region. 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 May 2024 in the Washington, D.C. area.

Upper St. Clair eighth grader Raana Parchuri, two-time Fort Couch Middle School Spelling Bee Champion, won the Western Pennsylvania Spelling Bee in 2023 and finished as a quarterfinalist at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. He also won the regional competition in 2020 as a fourth grader and finished second as a fifth grader in 2021.

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

Baker Elementary School (grade 4)

  • 1st Place: Adelyn Stockton, in the 25th round with the winning word "lavish"
  • 2nd Place: Seetha Muthiah
  • 3rd Place: Priyal Baskota
  • 4th Place: Shan Odari
  • 5th Place: Henry Niesz

Eisenhower Elementary School (grade 4)

  • 1st Place: Eli Karambelkar, in the 25th round with the winning word "Vaseline"
  • 2nd Place: Miriam Wynne
  • 3rd Place: Sahn-Barnabas Poczos
  • 4th Place: Eva Sai
  • 5th Place: Vanshika Vaishnavi Ande

Streams Elementary School (grade 4)

  • 1st Place: Alexander Li, in the 21st round with the winning word "forearms"
  • 2nd Place: Jonathan Lucas
  • 3rd Place: Keerthan Inampudi
  • 4th Place: Declan Petrick
  • 5th Place: JJ Weaver

Boyce Middle School

  • 1st Place: Luka Beric, in the 23rd round with the winning word "pragmatic"
  • 2nd Place: Ivan Yanov
  • 3rd Place: Sailee Kumar
  • 4th Place: Nitya Nagireddy
  • 5th Place: Naisha Agarwal

Fort Couch Middle School

  • 1st Place: Raana Parchuri, in the 17th round with the winning word " anthropomorphic"
  • 2nd Place: Ahana Mendhi
  • 3rd Place: Arjun Kairi
  • 4th Place: Mahi Thacker
  • 5th Place: Divya Singh