State Spelling Bee Coming Up This Month at Dakota Wesleyan

Spelling is one of those crucial elements of education that can actually impact your life for all of your life. In the area of communication good spelling is absolutely invaluable.

Dakota News Now is reporting that the State Spelling Bee is coming up later this month and is being hosted by South Dakota News Watch and Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell.

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On March 29th, thirty-one elementary and middle school students will compete at DWU in Mitchell, with one of them advancing to the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. This is the 100th Anniversary of this long-running competition.

Dakota Wesleyan University states that "millions of students around the country and the world have had their lives touched by the spelling bee. It provides classroom materials to schools that are enrolled in the program".

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Students develop confidence and gain experience in public speaking while getting to know some of their like-minded peers.

The South Dakota schools sending a student to the State Spelling Bee are:

Aberdeen: Holgate Middle School
Brandon: Brandon Valley Intermediate School; Robert Bennis Elementary School
Brookings: George S. Mickelson Middle School
Clear Lake: Deuel School
Estelline: Estelline Junior High; Sharon F. Delzer Elementary School
Ethan: Ethan School
Florence: Florence School
Garretson: Garretson School
Hot Springs: Hot Springs Elementary School; Hot Springs Middle School
Milbank: Milbank Middle School
North Sioux City: Dakota Valley Upper Elementary Middle School
Piedmont: Piedmont Valley Elementary School
Platte: Platte-Geddes Elementary School
Rapid City: Calvary Christian School; Saint Elizabeth Seton Central School; Saint Thomas More Middle School; Saints in the Making Homeschool
Scotland: Scotland Middle Senior High School
Sioux Falls: Challenge Center Elementary School; Cornerstone School; Good Shepherd Lutheran School
Spearfish: Black Hills Christian Academy
Sturgis: Sturgis Elementary School
Summerset: Stagebarn Middle School
Vermillion: Vermillion Middle School
Watertown: Saint Martin Lutheran School
Waverly: Waverly South Shore School
Yankton: Webster Elementary School

Sources: Dakota News Now and Dakota Wesleyan University

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