Daily News | ‘Querken’ stumped him, but this Delco 8th grader placed 10th of 231 in national spelling bee
“At that moment, I didn’t really feel what happened. I was in shock,” he said. “It didn’t really hit me until I came off the stage and sat down. I was talking to a couple friends and they also didn’t know the word. That made me feel better — it’s not just me.”
He kept advancing — winning the county bee in sixth grade and coming in 31st in the Scripps national contest, and then coming in 23rd the following year. “If I hadn’t put in the time, there was no way I would have gotten any of those words,” he said, noting that only words in the early rounds come from a list spellers can study ahead of time. The rest require broader knowledge of vocabulary and language patterns.His mother, Sandhya Ganesan, said it was “nervewracking” watching her son at the competition in Maryland.came up, “I could see he was debating,” she said.
This was Anandh’s last year in the Scripps bee, which tops out at eighth grade. But he has other interests: Anandh, who favors science classes, has also participated in robotics competitions and hopes to become an engineer.
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