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Scripts Spelling Bee
About the Bee:
The Bee is the nation’s largest and longest-running educational promotion, administered on a not-for-profit basis by The E.W. Scripps Company and sponsors in the United States, American Samoa, Canada, China, Europe, Ghana, Guam, Jamaica, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, South Korea, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Sponsorship is available on a limited basis to businesses and community organizations. Each sponsor organizes a spelling bee program in its community with the cooperation of area school officials: public, private, parochial, charter, virtual, and home schools. For information on sponsorship opportunities, click here.
Schools enroll with the national office to ensure their students are eligible to participate and to receive the materials needed to conduct classroom and school bees. During enrollment, school bee coordinators receive their local sponsor’s program-specific information, local dates, deadlines, and participation guidelines. For an overview of the enrollment process, click here.
The Bee sends enrolled schools 25 Spell It! study booklets. The study booklet is also available free online at myspellit.com.
The champion of each sponsor?s final spelling bee advances to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. For an overview of Bee Week, click here.
Purpose:
Our purpose is to help students improve their spelling, increase their vocabularies, learn concepts, and develop correct English usage that will help them all their lives.
Eligibility:
In general, the program is open to students who have not reached their 15th birthday on or before September 1, 2008; who have not passed beyond eighth grade on or before February 1, 2009; and who attend schools that enrolled for participation during the 2008-09 academic year. A complete list of eligibility requirements may be found in the Rules for Local Spelling Bee.
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