PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTYBy Richard D. ElliottWI Contributing Reporter
With a crowd of greater than 300 members of the family, academics and particular supporters, 25 college students competed for the title of winner on the 2023 Prince George’s County Spelling Bee introduced by the Washington Informer and Washington Informer Charities, hosted on the College of Maryland’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Middle on March 17. Eighth grader Lesly Hernandez Martin walked away because the champion and can be granted computerized entrance to the Scripps Nationwide Spelling Bee.
This 12 months’s Scripps competitors is being held on the Gaylord Nationwide Resort and Conference Middle in Fort Washington, Maryland, a mere 30 minute commute from The Clarice.
Washington Fuel, Pepco, Academic Methods Federal Credit score Union, Comcast, Safeway, the Prince George’s County Chamber of Commerce, Merriam-Webster, Silver Spring Signarama, the Clarice Performing Arts Middle, the Scripps Nationwide Spelling Bee and the Basis for the Development of Music and Schooling (FAME) had been the sponsors of the 2023 Prince George’s County Spelling Bee. The Academic Methods Federal Credit score Union supplied shirts for the contestants and judges.
Tracye Funn, of Washington Fuel, which has sponsored the scholastic occasion for greater than 10 years, mentioned, “the Spelling Bee is a enjoyable, interactive, difficult approach to remind youth in regards to the significance of spelling.”
“I write speeches and knowledge for press releases, and inner and exterior releases, and spelling is vital,” added Funn, who has been with Washington Fuel greater than 35 years, and is presently supervisor of Company Contributions.
Regardless of the delivery and evolution of autocorrect, Tami Watkins, director of Regulatory Affairs with Comcast, mentioned spelling remains to be key.
