Indian-American teen wins US Spelling Bee crown

[Yeti]

From Lalit K Jha Washington, June 3 (PTI) Indian-origin students have triumphed four times in a row in the prestigious Spelling Bee championship of the US with 14-year-old Sukanya Roy correctly spelling the tongue-twister 'cymotrichous' to be crowned the new champion. "My heart started pounding, I guess," Sukanya said, after winning the championship, considered as a coveted prize for students in the US.Sukanya spelt the word "cymotrichous" which relates to wavy hair, correctly to win the coveted prize for students in the US. "I couldn't believe it...It's just amazing. It's hard to put into words," the Class 8 student of Pennsylvania's Abington Heights Middle School said. She was declared winner following the finals between 13 candidates last evening. The teenager earlier participated in the 2009 and 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bees, tying for 12th place in 2009 and 20th place in 2010. This is the fourth year in succession and ninth time in 13 years that an Indian American has been declared a Spelling Bee champion, reflecting the dominance of the community students in the competition. Sukanya enjoys hiking, rock climbing and ice skating.She was selected to go to Panama this summer with her school's ecology club to learn more about the rain forest. A pianist, Sukanya also plays violin in her school's orchestra. She had won first place in the individual portion of the Northeast Pennsylvania Chapter Mathcounts Competition.



proud to be Indian

 

[Masterchief]

Indian american kids do this every year.

 

[Yeti]

Indian american kids do this every year.

yeah think we won it last year as well

 

[Kevrai]

2008 !Sameer Mishra
2009 !Kavya Shivashankar
2010 !Anamika Veeramani
2011 !Sukanya Roy

Indian kids have won the last four Scripps Spelling Bees

 

[Zeeshan360]

4 consecutive

 

[great]

8 times in last 12 years I think.

 

[Akasa]

Congratulations.

 

[RPK]

Mostly Girls Cool!

 

[Yeti]

was she from kerala? they are really smart people

 

[ephone]

Maybe it is tradition. There are some Chinese kids participation. However, overall, not many Chinese parents encourage their kids for that. Anyone knows why?

 

[Hindustani]

Congrats

 

[Zeeshan360]

Maybe it is tradition. There are some Chinese kids participation. However, overall, not many Chinese parents encourage their kids for that. Anyone knows why?

Because Chinese kids have extremely high IQ and they arent suitable for such competitions

 

[MiloMayor]

Maybe it is tradition. There are some Chinese kids participation. However, overall, not many Chinese parents encourage their kids for that. Anyone knows why?

The two top most communities in education today are Indians and Chinese. Most of the Indian kids have a professional background, where most of the Chinese have a Business background. Both are hard workers.

 

[Chogy]

It is good to see immigrants, and their children, flourishing under the American system.

 

[Dhruv V Singh]

Well done, although I don't see the point of this competition, specially in the age of spell check