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Boundary County students participate and
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March 29, 2015 |
Several students from Boundary County placed in
the 12th annual North Idaho Regional Spelling
Bee, held March 21 at North Idaho College.
Seventh-grade Canfield Middle School student
Kendall Foster, of Hayden, won the competition,
out-spelling 43 other fourth- through
eighth-graders from the five northern counties
of Idaho to become the champion speller in the
Regional Spelling Bee.
Foster previously participated in the North
Idaho Regional Spelling Bee as a sixth-grader in
2014.
Foster is the recipient of an all-expense paid
trip to the 2015 Scripps National Spelling Bee
May 24-30 near Washington, D.C., courtesy of
event sponsor Hagadone Newspapers. He also
received a Merriam Webster’s Third New
International Dictionary, a Samuel Louis
Sugarman Award Certificate, a one-year
membership to Britannica Online Premium edition,
a plaque, a medallion, and a North Idaho College
events pass for the 2015-2016 school year.
“It was evident that this year’s participants
had spent a lot of time studying and were ready
to compete,” said North Idaho Regional Spelling
Bee Coordinator Mindy Patterson.
This year’s spelling bee went on for 13 rounds.
The first runner up Kiana LaCroix, an
eighth-grade Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy
student, slipped up on the word “kovsh.” After
correctly spelling “poltergeist” in the round
prior, Foster correctly spelled the anticipated
championship word “yamen,” to be crowned the
2015 North Idaho Regional Spelling Bee champion.
Joshua Bobbit, a fifth-grade home school student
from Hayden, earned second runner-up, making it
to Round 11 of the bee before tripping up on the
word “staccato.”
Participating students from Boundary County
included:
Chase Tucker, a sixth-grader who attends
Boundary County Middle School, who tied for
fourth place in the Regional Spelling Bee. Tyler
Stockdale, a fifth-grader from Naples Elementary
School, tied for eighth place. Bianca Dally, a
fourth-grader from Mt. Hall Elementary School,
and Jamin Bontrager, an eighth-grader at
Boundary County Middle School, tied with other
participants for 10th place at the competition.
Each of the 44 participants from 55 schools in
11 districts across North Idaho, including
private school and home school divisions,
received medallions and NIC events passes.
The event was sponsored by Hagadone Newspapers
and coordinated/hosted by NIC. |
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