PHS host 2019 Spell Bowl Competition Tonight
Monday, November 4
Plymouth High School will host the 2019 Spell Bowl Area Contest in the PHS varsity gym at 6 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 4, and the community is welcome to attend the event.
Class 1 competitors:
Mishawaka High School
Penn High School
Plymouth High School
Class 2 competitors:
John Glenn High School
New Prairie High School
Class 3 competitor:
Bremen High School
Approximately 6,000 students from around the state have been preparing for the 35th annual Indiana Academic Spell Bowl, which will take place at 18 sites around the state for grades 9-12 on Monday evening, November 4, and at 19 sites around the state for grades 6-7-8 on Tuesday, November 5.
Senior division teams of 10 students each and junior division teams of eight students each will compete. In addition to the over 6,000 competing team members, there were several thousand additional students who tried out but did not make the “starting” team.
The Indiana Academic Spell Bowl is a team concept with no individual winners. Each round consists of one team member writing the correct spelling of nine words while competing against one team member from each other school. Students are seated on the gym floor or auditorium stage. Each word is graded immediately and an individual scoring chart maintains a running team score as the evening progresses. While students are waiting to compete, they sit in a cheer block to cheer for their teammates.
The top teams with the highest scores in each of the four enrollment classifications will converge on the Purdue University campus (both Senior and Junior divisions) on Saturday, November 16, 2019, for the state championship competition.
Over 2,000 people witnessed last year’s competition. The competition is administered by the Indiana Association of School Principals, Department of Student Programs and sponsored by Purdue University.
For more information contact Dept. of Student Programs at the above location or your local participating site.
Results will be posted by noon the day after both area competitions at www.iasp.org.
Choose Student Programs/SpellBowl, then scroll to the Results section. Teams qualifying for the Spell Bowl State Finals will be marked in BOLD type.
