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Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Happy birthday to Shruthika Padhy, co-champion of the 2019 Bee and part of the unforgettable OctoChamps! Shruthika is currently studying at Brown University and joined us a couple of weeks ago at Bee Week 2026 as part of our College Crew.
Happy birthday, champ! 🎉
Congratulations to Rancho Cucamonga’s own Shrey Parikh on winning the 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee! Your talent is astonishing, further demonstrated by you spelling 32 words correctly during the spell-off, a new Bee record. You make CA-28 proud!
BREAKING: Shrey Parikh wins the Scripps National Spelling Bee, beating Ishaan Gupta in a lightning-round tiebreaker.
Happy birthday to 1985 Bee champion Balu Natarajan! Forty-one years ago, Balu became the first Indian American to win the Bee. 🐝 Since that landmark victory, there have been 32 Indian American Bee champions. Today, Dr. Natarajan is Chief Medical Officer of AccentCare, Inc.
Happy birthday, legend! 🎂
Our Bee's Bookshelf Book of the Month for June is the #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novel El Deafo by Cece Bell. It's the superhero origin story of a student with hearing loss and a hearing aid. Learn more at https://bit.ly/4efRvNw.
Shrey Parikh's Bee journey started as a 4th grader in 2022, when he finished in 89th place.
It ended with a championship.
"Was it the most electrifying 90-seconds of sports so far this year? Honestly, it might be."
We couldn't agree more 😎
https://brobible.com/sports/article/2026-scripps-spelling-bee-spell-off-electric/
Bee Week Bash is our annual closing gala – a chance for spellers and their families to celebrate their achievements before heading home. This year's was one of our best ever, hosted at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. The exhibits, the dancing, and the joy were off the charts. 🎉
Happy heavenly birthday to 1968 Bee champion Robert Walters. That year's competition was emotional – the Bee started on June 5, just hours after Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. A devoted family man, Robert was born, worked, married his wife LuAnn and raised his family in Kansas. He died in 2018.
The only bell Shrey experienced during his Bee journey was ringing the Nasdaq Opening Bell this morning! 🛎️ Shrey was joined by family members and leaders from The E.W. Scripps Company, including President/CEO Adam Symson. Congratulations, Shrey!
Photography courtesy 2026 Nasdaq, Inc. / Vanja Savic
Shrey Parikh has won the Scripps National Spelling Bee, beating Ishaan Gupta in a lightning-round tiebreaker. Shrey is a 14-year-old from Rancho Cucamonga, California.
The 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee came down the third-ever 'Spell Off' in the history of the competition. It was a battle between a 14-year-old 8th
Breaking: Shrey Parikh, 14, of California, won the 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday in a spell-off. Parikh spelled 32 words correctly during the spell-off, more than Ishaan Gupta’s 25 words.
More on this year's dramatic finish and slew of prizes: https://wapo.st/3RNU9RV
