Spillane eighth-grader wins CFISD spelling bee
From a press release:
Spillane Middle School eighth-grade student Bart Zhang won first place by correctly spelling the word anonymous" in the 14th round of the annual district-wide Middle School Spelling Bee, held at the Berry Center on Tuesday, Feb. 23.
Campbell Middle School student Diego Arrieta was the district's runner-up. Both Zhang and Arrieta will compete in the Houston PBS Regional Spelling Bee, scheduled for March 27 at 2 p.m. on the University of Houston campus.
The Spelling Bee champions who represented their respective middle schools at the district competition are:
Campus: Name, Grade
Aragon: Roshni Chandwani, 8, Joshua Mars, 6
Arnold: Husaina Yusuf, 8, Josephine Owalabi, 8
Bleyl: Krishna Kosigi, 8, Kumail Naqvi, 6
Campbell: Diego Arrieta, 6, Huy Pham, 7
Cook: Michael Chen, 8, Sean Patel, 7
Dean: Alykhan Bijani, 8, Claudia Torres, 7
Goodson: Sharon Creighton, 8, Riley Decker, 8
Hamilton: Sanchita Mahoorkar, 7, Ryan Steppe, 7
Hopper: Dana Holliday, 6, Hussain Ali, 8
Kahla: Brittanie Perez, 8, Hector Segura, 7
Labay: Ryan Franks, 8, Akhil Ganti, 8
Smith: Kimani Bradley, 8, Ankita Kumar, 6
Spillane: Chantal Bondoc, 7, Bart Zhang, 8
Thornton: Gary Gray, 6, Shelby Stone, 6
Truitt: Oanh Nguyen, 6, Kosieme Njoku, 7
Watkins: Faris Chowdhury, 8, Mehlum Kayamali, 7
