Spelling Bee winner

MWMS 8th grader Abhilash Patel won the Orange-Ulster BOCES Regional Spelling Bee on March 15 and has qualified to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The national competition will take place during Memorial Day week near Washington, D.C.

Abhilash, who took second place in the Regional competition in 2021, has studied exhaustively for this year's competition. In addition to being an excellent speller, he had to learn word origins, pronunciations  and their definitions. To prepare for the competition, Abhilash attended practice weekly and studied independently as well.

Congratulations to Abhilash on this amazing achievement and best of luck at Scripps. We will be cheering you on!