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Our very own Anurag Kashyap WON the
National Spelling Bee contest Thursday, June 2nd. We are
all very proud of him. Below are the stories from various news stations that
document his accomplishment.
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By Blanca Gonzalez
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF
WRITER
June 5, 2005
The champ came home last night.
Anurag Kashyap, the Poway eighth-grader who won the
National Spelling Bee Thursday, arrived to cheers and congratulations at Lindbergh
Field shortly before 9 p.m. |
| Looking weary and surprised to see a handful of friends, well-wishers
and a phalanx of news cameras to greet him, Anurag, 13, arrived with his parents after
a whirlwind week in Washington, D.C., and New York.
Anurag beat 272 spellers from around
the country during the 78th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee after correctly
spelling appoggiatura, a type of musical note.
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PEGGY PEATTIE / Union-Tribune
Anurag Kashyap, winner of the Scripps
National Spelling Bee, beamed as Poway middle school classmates and others greeted
him at Lindbergh Field last night.
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June 4th - Poway eighth-grader spells it like it is
June 4th - Spelling champ learns a new word: 'fame'
June 5th - Poway's spelling champ returns after his triumph
June 5th - Why kids in families from India spell well
June
7th - The word conqueror returns
June 9th - Top speller faces late-night contest
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Meadowbrook students welcome National Spelling Bee
champion home
| By Pat
Kumpan |
June 8,
2005 |
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winning the 78th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee on June 2 in Washington,
D.C., Anurag Kashyap of Poway is definitely a “champ” by almost anyone’s
definition.
Just ask his fellow students, teachers and Principal Cathy Brose at
Meadowbrook Middle School, where he got a hero’s welcome Monday after
returning from his Washington trip.
The 13-year-old’s name is practically a
household word now that he has appeared on national television and been
interviewed by Katie Couric of the “Today” show and many others.
More from the News Chieftain |
Anurag Kashyap, the nation’s top speller, is all
smiles while greeting fellow students upon his return Monday to Meadowbrook
Middle School. Staff photo by Steve Spangler |
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Governor
Schwarznegger and California Assemblyman Plescia congratulate Meadowbrook's Spelling
Champion, Anurag Kashyap.
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Poway student wins national spelling bee
| Poway eighth-grader Anurag Kashyap
won the 78th annual National Spelling Bee in Washington today.
By: ADRIENNE A. AGUIRRE - Staff Writer
North County's own Anurag Kashyap, 13, became the nation's spelling bee
champion Thursday, beating 272 students in the 78th annual National Scripps
Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. |
Poway eighth-grader Anurag Kashyap won the 78th annual
National Spelling Bee in
Washington today.
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The Meadowbrook
Middle School eighth-grader won the two-day competition in the 19th round.
When he spelled the winning word, "a-p-p-o-g-g-i-a-t-u-r-a," a
melodic tone, the straight-A student pulled his number "20" sign
over the lower half of his face, then raced into the arms of his father.
In Poway, residents watched the contest from bars, while teachers monitored
it on the Internet in their classrooms. Meadowbrook office personnel and
teachers updated each other on his progress.
"He made it to round 18," a school staffer reported. "There's
just three (students) left."
From his classroom, Anurag's reading and writing teacher Michael Billings
refreshed the spelling bee's Internet site for the update on round 19.
"He spelled the word right," he said, pointing to the screen.
"The other two (students) misspelled their words."
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Striving in America,
and in the Spelling Bee
By: JOSEPH BERGER
Published: June 5, 2005
FOR many American contestants, the most
uncommon words at last week's national spelling bee were not appoggiatura
and onychophagy, but the names of the top four finishers: Anurag Kashyap,
Aliya Deri, Samir Patel and Rajiv Tarigopula. All were of Indian ancestry. |
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Jason Reed/Reuters
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In recent years,
descendants of Indian immigrants - less than 1 percent of the population -
have dominated this contest, snatching first place in five of the past seven
years, and making up more than 30 of the 273 contestants this year.
Behind those statistics lies a beguiling
story, not just of immigrant pluck, but of a craze that seems to have swept
through the Indian-American community.
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Calif.
8th-grader wins spelling bee
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Boy
correctly spells ‘appoggiatura’ for $30,000 in prizes
The Associated Press
Updated: 4:21 p.m. ET June 3, 2005
WASHINGTON - Bursting into tears,
eighth-grader Anurag Kashyap of California became the U.S. spelling
champ Thursday, beating 272 other spellers in a tough two days of
competition. He said he felt “just pure happiness.” |
View their slide show of Anurag Kashyap
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Bursting into tears, eighth-grader Anurag Kashyap, of
Poway, Calif., became the U.S. spelling champ Thursday, beating out
272 other spellers in a tough two days of competition.
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Thursday, June 02, 2005
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WASHINGTON — "Appoggiatura"
was music to 13-year-old Anurag Kashyap's (search) ears. Correctly
spelling the word that means melodic tone, he clinched the 2005 national
spelling bee championship.
An eighth-grader in Poway, Calif.,
Anurag ran into his father's arms and burst into tears. He said he felt
"just pure happiness."
Beating out 272 other competitors,
Anurag won Thursday in the 19th round of the 78th annual National Scripps
Spelling Bee (search).
His prize: $30,000 in cash, scholarships and books.
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Photo courtesy of Fox News
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Californian Can Spell
W-I-N-N-E-R
13-Year-Old Wins National
Spelling Bee |
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WASHINGTON
-- A California eighth-grader burst into tears and said he feels
"pure happiness" after winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Anurag Kashyap, 13, won in the
19th round by correctly spelling the word appoggiatura, a musical term.
He beat out 272 other spellers to
take home some $30,000 in prizes.
Anurag is from Poway, Calif., and
was sponsored by The San Diego Union-Tribune. He came in 47th in last
year's competition. |
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His bio lists his favorite subject as
science.
A missed letter here and an extra letter
there had helped to winnow a field of 273 down to fewer than three dozen by Thursday
afternoon.
There were high-fives and sighs of
relief as successful spellers lived to tackle another word that most Americans have
never heard of, let alone spelled.
For more from the Louisville Channel
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 Fact Sheet: National
Spelling Bee
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Eighth-grader wins spelling bee
Friday, June 3, 2005 Posted: 9:49 AM EDT (1349 GMT)
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| WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eighth-grader
Anurag Kashyap is good at math, science and geography. But rapid-fire spelling
-- that's his forte.
Whizzing through words most
people never heard of, the 13-year-old from Poway, California, won the 2005
national spelling bee championship on his second try as a contestant. |
| "I was really
nervous because I worked really hard on that and I wanted to do good,"
Anurag said Friday on ABC's "Good Morning America." He had to guess at
a few words he hadn't studied, including "priscilla" (a ruffled
curtain) in the third round, Anurag said. |
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