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The 78th Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee will begin Wednesday, June 1, in Washington D.C., featuring top spellers from across the U.S. and including competitors from Europe, Guam, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, The Bahamas, American Samoa, Canada and New Zealand.
The championship rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee will be broadcast live, exclusively on ESPN, from 10 a.m. to noon and from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EDT, Thursday, June 2.
The national champion receives an engraved loving cup, a $5,000 cash award from Franklin Electronic Publishers, a $5,000 cash award from LeapFrog Enterprises Inc., a $5,000 scholarship from Sigma Phi Epsilon Educational Foundation, and, from Encyclopedia Britannica, one set of the Encyclopedia Britannica and other reference works. The national champion also receives a $1,000 U.S. savings bond and library reference works.
Biographies of this year's spellers and information about the Scripps National Spelling Bee can be found online at http://www.spellingbee.com .
78th Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee To Be Held June 1-2 in Washington D.C.
