The 2024 BEF 5th Grade Spelling Bee was held on Sunday, November 17 in the auditorium at Brookline High School. We were thrilled to welcome 53 participants from all 8 Brookline public schools to the fun and exciting competition. Thank you so much to our pronouncer, Brookline Tween Librarian Abbey Stephens, and our judges: Head Judge Latasha Scott of the Brookline Teen Center, Detective Lieutenant Casey Hatchett and Officer Katie McCabe (and Bear the Dog!) of the Brookline Police Department.
Congratulations to the winner, Sophia Karl, from Runkle! The winning word was “capricious”.
There were six runners-up – congratulations to Andrew Tran of Lincoln, Dani Chen and Joshua Tsai of Ruffin Ridley, Kinsley Ahn and Kavi Shastry of Baker, and Maxwell Jacobs of Runkle!
How does the Children’s Spelling Bee work?
The 5th Grade Spelling Bee is an “old-fashioned” spelling bee with the spellers taking turns, each spelling a different word. Once a speller misspells one word, they are out of the Bee. Prizes are awarded to the winners and each speller receives a certificate for participating. For details on how the Bee works, see Spelling Bee Rules and Procedures.
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Past Spelling Bee Results
Thank you to our generous 2023 Spelling Bee Sponsors!
Dr. Sally Roth
Congratulations to the 2023 5th Grade Spelling Bee Participants!
The 2023 Fifth Grade Spelling Bee was held in the Auditorium at Brookline High School on Sunday, November 19th. Congratulations to winner Lucy Lawson of Baker School and runners-up Miles Hainer of Pierce and Felix Schwartz of Lincoln! The winning word was quintessence.
Thank you to our pronouncer, Brookline librarian Abbey Stephens; our Head Judge, Vanessa Trien, our Judges Officer Katie McCabe, Sergeant Casey Hatchett, and Bear the Dog!
l-r: pronouncer Abbey Stephens, Brookline librarian, runners-up Miles Hainer (Pierce) and Felix Schwartz (Lincoln), winner Lucy Lawson (Baker), judges Katie McCabe, Casey Hatchett, & Vanessa Trien… and Bear the Dog
2022 Spelling Bee
Congratulations to this year’s winner, Georgiana Green of Runkle, and to the three runners-up: Evelyn Kmiec of Heath, Eliza Mnookin of Ridley, and Milonee Mukesh of Lincoln.
The winning word was capricious.
Thank You!
Pronouncer, Brookline Librarian Caroline Richardson,
Head Judge, Dr. Linus Guillory,
Judges, Sergeant Casey Hatchett and Officer Katie McCabe, and Officer Bear!
2021 Spelling Bee
Congratulations to this year’s winner, Kris Barbarin of Heath School, and this year’s runners-up, Raj Amin of Baker School and Felice Vittolo of Pierce School.
The winning word was etymology.
Thank You!
Pronouncer, Brookline Librarian Caroline Richardson,
Head Judge, Meghna Chakrabarti,
Judges, Seargeant Casey Hatchett and Officer Katie McCabe, and Officer Bear!
2019 Spelling Bee
L-R: BEF Executive Director, Elizabeth Ascoli, Lieutenant Jennifer Paster, Bee winner, Astrid Young, Officer Katie McCabe with Officer Bear, and Deputy Superintendent Dr. Nicole Gittens
For 2019, the first place winner in our 5th Grade Spelling Bee was Astrid Young from Heath School. The winning word was “quintessence.” Runners-up were Joshua Doctoroff from Runkle, Rui-han Ji from Heath, and Matthew Shin from Baker.
Congratulations to our winner and to all the students who participated in our Bee!