Obeisance for orthographers is axiomatic
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Last Person Standing from each school district (left to right): Margee Neer of Altrusa, Angelica Mendoza of Lo-Inyo, Clarissa Castro of Owens Valley, Tyler Mahlum-Hambleton of Big Pine, Hana Hogan of Round Valley and Ace Selters of Home Street. Photos courtesy: ICOE. -
Spelling Bee Winners (left to right): Rose Bracken (1st Place from Bishop Elementary), Mahdi Ayman (2nd Place from Home Street) and Lyndsey Rowan (3rd place from Home Street).
The winners of the competition were: 1st place winner Rose Bracken of Bishop Elementary, 2nd place Mahdi Ayman from Home Street and 3rd place Lyndsey Rowan from Home Street.
After fierce competition with words like desuetude, obeisance and exuviae, the winning word was: punchy.
The spelling contestants included Rainah Dewey, Ashley Fitt, Rocko Moore and Bodie Steinwand from Big Pine; Dev Bhakta, Graciela Gutierrez, Korina Isidro, and Jenna McGuire from Lone Pine; Sarah Faircloth, Erik Martinez, Mark McAlister and Orion Nash from Owens Valley; Branden Gardea from Bishop schools; Rylee Arcularius, Jilly Maurice, Braeden McGrale and Alex Morales from Round Valley. Several students also joined the preliminary competition as alternates to get practice for next year: Paul Rodriguez from Lo-Inyo, Carlos Roriguez-Gonzales from Bishop, Dante Allen and Julian Carter from Owens Valley, and Greg Tordoff from Round Valley.
The Round Valley PTO donated $5 to the “last person standing” from each of the five districts competing. The recipients of those awards were, Clarissa Castro, from Owens Valley, Hana Hogan from Round Valley, Tyler Mahlum-Hambleton from Big Pine, Angelica Mendoza from Lo-Inyo and Ace Selters of Bishop.
The bee is sponsored by Altrusa.
