Spelling Bee Winner Announced

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March 15, 2014

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Danville Area, Morning Star Family Medicine, and Averett University sponsored the local Spelling bee on Saturday, March 15th, 2015 at Blount Chapel. Twenty- four children local, private, and public schools participated in the “Bee.”

Madison Fuentes was the pronouncer. The spellers went sixty-one rounds before a winner was announced. The 2014 winner was Jacob McDaniel (left to right), an 8th grader at Sacred Heart Private School. The runner up was Caleb Adams, a 6th grader at Westwood Middle School.

The winner will advance to the Scripps National Spelling Bee on May 25, 2014 – May 25, 2014 at the Gaylord National in Washington, D.C.