Facing more than a modicum of competition, seventh-grader Aurora Alten-Huber won the 2015 Spelling Bee championship after several rounds of intense head-to-head spelling with the second-place winner.
Alten-Huber, 13, won on the word “modicum” after her opponent, seventh-grader Syerus Davis, misspelled “iteration.”
Davis and Alten-Huber went against each other for three rounds after seven other students participating in the bee were eliminated. Davis correctly spelled several potential stumpers including “pyrite,” “prolific,” and “doldrums” before being…
