In the Media

**Seminole County student ties for fifth place in Scripps National Spelling Bee** by Staff Report (Orlando News)

**Spelling bee veteran offers master class in composure** by Ben Nuckols (Associated Press)

**Q&A: Scripps co-champion Christopher Serrao, Lehigh Valley spelling bee ace, on how to win** by Kayla Dwyer (The Morning Call)

**Broken bee? Spelling experts say tougher words are out there** by Ben Nuckols (Associated Press)

” Siyona Mishra, who finished ninth in 2015 and coached this year’s co-champion Christopher Serrao, said tricking up the word list is easy.

“You could go to geographical words, names of tribes of people,” the 15-year-old Siyona said. “Genus names, some slangy words are also a bit more difficult, not in the sense that they’re hard to spell but they’re a lot more unpredictable. They don’t follow language patterns.” “