Medina County Spelling Bee
Dr. Dan Vincent Ph.D.
February 17, 2010
The Eleventh Annual Medina County Spelling Bee was held on Tuesday, February 2nd at 7 p.m. at Medina High School. Zoe Penko, a 7th grade student from Highland Middle School was the first-place winner. She won the Bee with the final word of “bowery.”
In addition to Zoe, the following five students were also the top place winners who will travel to Akron to represent Medina County in the NE Ohio Finals on March 13, 2010: Raymond Liu, 6th Grade, Edwards Middle School, and John Shaw, 8th Grade, Willetts Middle School, Brunswick City; Sunny Levine, 6th Grade, Claggett Middle School, Medina City; and Emily Kopchak and Sarah Abshire, 7th Grade, Wadsworth Middle School, Wadsworth City.
Forty-seven Medina County students competed for top honors in the Spelling Bee sponsored by The Akron Beacon Journal and produced by the Medina County Schools' Educational Service Center (ESC). The Bee was open to all sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students in public school districts, and private schools, as well as homeschoolers who met the eligibility requirements of the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee and who had won their Spelling Bee at their local district level.
The ESC thanks The Akron Beacon Journal for it’s sponsorship. We would also like to thank the Rev. Chris Cahill for being the pronouncer for this year’s Bee. Rev. Cahill has consistently served as the Bee announcer over the past eleven years. A special thanks is also extended to this year’s Spelling Bee Judges Michele Wargo and Jacinda Yonker from the ESC, and Sue Baca from Edwards Middle School in Brunswick.
Congratulations to all the students who participated in the Medina County Bee, and good luck to our top six spellers who will next compete at the NE Ohio Spelling Bee Final to be held at the downtown Akron Library on March 13th. The winner of this Bee, which also includes students from Portage, Medina, Wayne, and Summit Counties, will travel to Washington, D.C., to participate in the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee on June 2-4, 2010.
Dan Vincent, Ph.D., Curriculum Director
dvincent@medina-esc.org
