Forty-six students who won their school's bee competed in the Green Country Regional Spelling Bee for the right to represent northeast Oklahoma at the 2016 Scripps National Spelling Bee near Washington, D.C.
Will McCollom, number 53, took home the first place trophy and will head to the Scripps National Spelling Bee near Washington D.C.
McCollom is a 2nd grader at TU University School.
ROSTER: Students participating in the Bee
AWARDS
The Champion of the Green Country Regional Spelling Bee receives:
- 1st Place trophy
- Family membership to the Tulsa Children's Museum
- One week of summer camp from Holland Hall
- One week of summer camp from Camp Loughridge
- Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged from Merriam-Webster
- Samuel Louis Sugarman Award
- One-year membership to Britannica Online Premium from Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Trip to the 2016 Scripps National Spelling Bee near Washington, D.C. for the winner and one parent from 2 Works for You and Kenco Engineering
- $800 in spending money while at Scripps National Spelling Bee from Kenco Engineering
The Runner-Up receives:
- 2nd Place trophy
- Family membership to the Tulsa Children's Museum
The 3rd Place finisher receives:
- 3rd Place trophy
- Family membership to the Tulsa Children's Museum
In addition to the prizes for first, second and third-place winners, each participant will receive a bag full of gifts and coupons thanks to ORU, Frontier City and Whitewater Bay, Tulsa Children's Museum, Arby's, Tulsa City-County Library, McDonalds and Monte Cassino.
RULES
This is an oral competition that will take place in rounds until only one speller remains. Each speller has been assigned a random number. There is no advantage associated with a particular number.
Each speller will approach the microphone when it is his or her turn to spell. A speller who correctly spells the word, returns to his or her seat on stage and waits for the next round.
If a speller has a question about a word’s pronunciation, definition, part of speech, use in a sentence or origin, he or she may ask the pronouncer for clarification. Once having started to spell a word, the speller may start over, but the letters or sequence of letters already spoken may not be changed.
Should a speller misspell a word, one of the judges will ring the bell and the pronouncer will provide the correct spelling. The speller is asked to leave the stage and sit in the front row until the end of the round.
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2 Works for You, Kenco Engineering and Oral Roberts University are sponsorship partners in bringing the Scripps National Spelling Bee to Green Country. As a Scripps broadcasting station, 2 Works for You has a long history, tradition and commitment to literacy education.
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