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UPDATE: Corona Student Advances to Third Round of National Spelling Bee

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UPDATED 12 NOON PT TUESDAY, May 28, 2019

   CORONA (CNS) - An eighth-grader from Corona advanced to the third round of the 92nd Scripps National Spelling Bee today (Tuesday) by correctly spelling agua fresca, a beverage consisting of water and sugar with fruits, grains or seeds added for flavoring.
   Aisha Randhawa will return to the stage at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, near Washington, D.C., this afternoon. The round will conclude Wednesday, followed by the announcement of which spellers will advance to Thursday's finals.
   Aisha and her fellow competitors took a multiple-choice test with 12
spelling words and 14 vocabulary questions on Monday, part of the qualifying
process to advance to the finals. The test is considered the bee's first round.
   Contestants spelling their third-round words correctly can advance to
the finals, which are limited to a maximum of 50 spellers. Spellers' scores are
plotted on a chart beginning at 36. Spellers at each consecutive scoring level
are added until no more than 50 spellers have been attained.
   Spellers receive one point for each of the 12 items correctly
identified in the spelling portion of the test, one point for each of the 12
items correctly identified in the initial vocabulary section, three points for
a correct answer to the lone item in the second vocabulary section, and three
points for a correct answer to the lone item in the third vocabulary section.
   Aisha is among seven spellers in the national bee making their fourth
or fifth appearances. She tied for seventh in last year's bee, the fourth-
highest past finish in the field.
   Aisha was eliminated in the 11th round of last year's bee when she
misspelled perduellion, a noun meaning treason, omitting the second L. She tied
for 22nd place in the 2016 bee and tied for 35th in the 2017 bee.
   The youngster has qualified for the national bee by winning the
Riverside County Spelling Bee a record four consecutive times.
   Aisha said she thoroughly enjoys ``learning of all kinds'' and loves
performing in the Auburndale Intermediate School jazz band, for which she plays
the piano and alto saxophone. She said she has fun with her siblings and
friends playing board games and exploring the outdoors.
   The bee is limited to students in eighth grade or below. Contestants
for the 92nd edition of the national bee range in age from 7 to 15.
   The field consists of spellers from all 50 states and the District of
Columbia, along with American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands
and Department of Defense schools in Europe.
   Seven foreign nations are also represented -- the Bahamas, Canada,
Germany, Ghana, Jamaica, Japan and South Korea.
   The bee is intended ``to inspire children to improve their spelling,
increase their vocabularies and develop correct English usage that will help
them all their lives,'' according to Paige Kimble, the bee's executive director
and 1981 champion.

 

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