Indian-American Sameer Mishra has won the 2008 Spelling Bee competition.
Sameer Mishra is a 13-year-old, 8th grade student at the West Lafayette Junior/Senior High School in West Lafayette, Indiana.
The word that earned Sameer the coveted championship was “guerdon,” a noun meaning a reward.
As the Bee Champion, Sameer Mishra took home $35,000 in cash, a $2,500 savings bond and other prizes.
There were at least four Indian-Americans in the top 12 of the competition.
Sameer Mishra: Bee Champion
(Photo courtesy: Spelling Bee)
The second place in the 2008 Spelling Bee went to 12-year-old Sidharth Chand, a 7th-grade student of the Detroit Country Day Middle School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Kavya Shivashankar tied for the 4th place and Jahnavi Iyer