It is open to students who have not yet completed the eighth grade, reached their 15th birthday, nor won a previous National Spelling Bee. The bee is held in late May and/or early June of each year. Scripps Company acquired the rights to the program in 1941. the spelling bee has been held every year except for 1943–1945 due to World War II and 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Frank Neuhauser won the first National Spelling Bee held that year, by successfully spelling "gladiolus". The National Spelling Bee was formed in 1925 as a consolidation of numerous local spelling bees, organized by The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky. This was the first time it had been canceled since 1945. The 2020 National Spelling Bee competition, originally scheduled for May 24, was suspended and later canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019, the Spelling Bee ran out of words that might challenge the contestants and ended up having 8 winners. Previous winners are also ineligible to compete. must be regional spelling-bee winners as well.Ĭontest participants cannot be older than fourteen as of August 31 of the year before the competition nor can they be past the eighth grade as of February 1 of that year's competition. Participants from countries other than the U.S. Virgin Islands, along with overseas military bases in Germany and South Korea). (including territories such as Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, the Navajo Nation, and the U.S. Historically, the competition has been open to, and remains open to, the winners of sponsored regional spelling bees in the U.S. Current and past Executive Directors of the Spelling Bee, Paige Kimble and Reta (née Reynolds) Rose have helped to widely popularize the Spelling Bee during their respective and lengthy tenures at the bee.Īlthough most of its participants are from the U.S., students from countries such as The Bahamas, Canada, the People's Republic of China, India, Ghana, Japan, Jamaica, Mexico, and New Zealand have also competed in recent years. It was previously held at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington D.C. Since 2011, it has been held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center hotel in National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, just outside Washington D.C. during the week following Memorial Day weekend. Scripps Company and is held at a hotel or convention center in Washington, D.C. The bee is run on a not-for-profit basis by The E. The Scripps National Spelling Bee (formerly the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee and commonly called the National Spelling Bee) is an annual spelling bee held in the United States. Annual spelling bee held in the United States
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