5.30.2013

Huffington Post Popular News: Scripps National Spelling Bee: Vanya Shivashankar Aims To Make Sibling History In 2013

OXON HILL, Md. -- She looks like her sister. She spells like her sister, tracing the letters on her palm as she calls out the letters. Her goal is become the back half of the first set of sibling champions in National Spelling Bee history.


Eleven-year-old Vanya Shivashankar of Olathe, Kan., qualified Wednesday for the semifinals of the 86th Scripps National Spelling Bee. She handled "intaglio" and "horologium" with no problem.




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