Dev Shah is the champion of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Charlotte Walsh, 14, from Arlington, Va., competes during the Scripps National Spelling Bee finals, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Oxon Hill, Md. – Fifteen months ago, Dev Shah spent a miserable five hours spelling outdoors in chilly, windy, damp conditions at a supersize regional competition in Orlando, Florida, only to fall short of his dream of returning to the Scripps National Spelling Bee.Look at him now.
“It took me four months to get him back on track because he was quite a bit disturbed and he didn't want to do it,” said Dev's mother, Nilam Shah. Dev soaked up the moment by asking for the word to be used in a sentence, something he described a day earlier as a stalling tactic. Then he put his hands over his face as he was declared the winner.
“This is not the spell-off, right?” Dev asked. Told it was not, he spelled"bathypitotmeter" so quickly that it might as well have been. Deval said his son showed an incredible recall with words starting at age 3, and Dev spent many years in participating in academic competitions staged by the North South Foundation, a nonprofit that provides scholarships to children in India.
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