Northport K-8 School Submits Spelling Bee Champion to Scripps!

Northport K-8 School is pleased that we can announce our 2015 Spelling Bee champion. Our first place winner is eighth grade Northstar student, Ashley Quijada who was submitted by instructor, Nick Carey. Ashley will represent Northport at the Scripps Regional Spelling Bee on March 14 at the Port St. Lucie Civic Center. The competition went five rounds with the winning word as “epoch.” Students withstood intense pressure as the words became increasingly more difficult. Students who participated in the bee were: Hailey Wrench, Destiny Diaz, Claudio Quant, Maya Kurasawa, Giselle Fernandez-Cerda, Anthony Otero, Kahlani Walk, Blake boyer, Dudley Olibrice, Miles Davin, Deontae Yuhas, Aaliyah Rodriguez, Destiny DeLater, Ke’Andre Moreno Pearson, Alec Cortez, Josh Ramos, Sierra Molinary, Daphney Sheets, Ashley Quijada, Jade Byerly, Sophia Blanco, Geredyne Carpentier, Kiara Badalo, McKayla Sanan, Nicholas Lewis, Cynthia Reynolds, Jesse Swain, Olivia Rios, Emma Stassen, Collin Sunes, Alexis Bowes, Jonathan Cales, Dylan Brown and Vincent Nelson. Serving as Northport judges and spelling host were the school’s AmeriCorps tutors, Barbara Heller, Tameka Walker and Azzam Abdur-Rahman. Pictured is Azzam kicking off the 2015 Northport Spelling Bee. Special thanks to all parents who attended the bee.