Sixth-grader Ketch Jacobson, 12, represented the Haines School at Alaska’s state spelling bee March 3 in Anchorage.
Ketch correctly spelled “providence,” but he exited the bee in the second round, on “monotonous.”
He was one of 152 spellers in the event at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts.
“We all sat down in seats, and they would call us up by row, and we would stand up there and wait for our turn to…