Its almost time for the National Spelling Bee. Several thousand grade-school age kids will be competing to spell words most of us can't even pronounce.
Everyone raise your hands if you knew this interesting factoid:
The winner of the 78th Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee will receive a $12,000 cash prize and an engraved loving cup trophy from Scripps, a $1,000 U.S. savings bond and a reference library from Merriam-Webster and a $5,000 college scholarship from Sigma Phi Epsilon.
Did it surprise anyone else to find out we are a sponsor? This is a very good way to get some positive press, but you have to wonder if the news is being leveraged enough. A quick "google" for "spelling bee" and "Sigma Phi Epsilon" did not turn up any other information. A reference to 'hiding your light under a bushel basket' seems to be in order here. Would anyone from the Foundation care to comment?
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