Children of Indian Immigrants Win Spelling Bee
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For the third time in three years, two students shared the Scripps National Spelling Bee championship Thursday night.
It was an exciting finish to the three-day event. The hashtag #spellingbee was one of the top trending topics on Twitter overnight.
The winners were 11-year-old Nihar Janga of Texas, and Jairam Hathwar, a 13-year-old from New York State.
Both boys' parents are from southern India.
Two years ago, Jairam's brother Sriram also shared the spelling bee championship.
This year's championship was unique because of Akash Vukoti, the youngest person ever to compete in the event. He is just six years old!
Lots of people said they loved him because, as some of them said, he was “so darn cute!”
The final words were Feldenkrais and gesellschaft. Feldenkrais is a kind of physical education named after a Ukrainian-born Israeli physicist. Gesellschaft is the name of a social relationship created by a German sociologist.
One Twitter user said she felt like the Bee was going into “six overtimes.”