Scripps Southwest Idaho Regional Spelling Bee
Congratulations to Eliana Castro, winner of the 2023 Southwest Idaho Regional Spelling Bee! See live event coverage at https://www.kivitv.com/news/eliana-castro-wins-scripps-regional-spelling-bee
Eliana is an eighth grader from South Hills Middle School, Twin Falls. The winning word was ‘bocage’.
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Looking for words?
The 2023 School Spelling Bee Study List and Words of the Champions are available to teachers at enrolled schools — simply log in to access and distribute to your students.
When and where is the Southwest Idaho Regional Spelling Bee?
Saturday, March 18, 2023 at the Boise State Student Union, in the second floor Simplot Ballroom.
Information about 2023 Bee Week to follow – stay tuned!
What schools can register and send a student to the Southwest Idaho Regional Spelling Bee?
Each school (whether public, private, charter, home-school or parochial) with students in the third through eigth grades in Ada, Adams, Boise, Canyon, Elmore, Gem, Owyhee, Payette, Valley, Washington, Jerome, Lincoln, Twin Falls, Minidoka, Gooding, Cassia, and Blaine counties in Idaho is welcome and eligible to register to send its school champion to the regional spelling bee. Each school must be individually registered – registration by one school in a district does not mean that any other school within the same district or area is also registered.
If your school is not in one of the above counties, please visit the database of local bees to see if there is a different spelling bee that includes your geographic area.
How can my school register and what is the registration fee?
- You must register through the Scripps Spelling Bee website at www.spellingbee.com
- School enrollment begins on Aug. 22, 2022 and ends on Dec. 31, 2022 at www.spellingbee.com
- The fee is $175 per both schools and home schools.
- School bee deadline: February 17, 2023
- School champion registration at www.spellingbee.com deadline: February 24, 2023
- Schools may pay via credit card or check. To enroll, teachers or administrators may visit spellingbee.com and select the Enrollment button in the upper right corner of our home page
How does my school select a champion to send to the regional spelling bee?
Neither Scripps nor Boise State has a prescribed format for how schools must determine their spelling champion. Some examples of how you can do this include:
- Hold a single bee that all eligible students at your school can compete in;
- Hold a bee for each eligible grade (3-8), then have the grade champions compete against each other; and
- Hold a bee by each classroom/homeroom and the champions of those rooms compete against each other.
- School bee deadline: Feb. 17, 2023
- School champion registration at spellingbee.com deadline: Feb. 24, 2023.
We do not recommend having the champion determined by chance, such as by a coin flip. The Regional Spelling Bee will be a competitive process, and the champion of the regional bee goes on to the Scripps Spelling Bee, which will be a highly competitive event.
What grades are eligible to participate?
Scripps has a rather detailed list of the eligibility requirements to participate in the bee, but generally, students in grades 3-8 who are not older than 15 can participate in the Southwest Idaho Regional Spelling Bee. Although Scripps allows students as young as first grade to participate, we decided to set a lower-limit of third grade for our bee.
Is there a word list we should use? How should our students study?
Yes! If your school has enrolled to participate in the 2023 Southwest Idaho Regional Spelling Bee, you can find the applicable word lists to study and use by logging into the Scripps Spelling Bee site (using the email and password for your account), and then look in the left-hand navigation menu for “School Materials.” The study lists, by grade and also a document that combines all of the study lists, are there as well as the lists of words to use in your classroom and school bees appear toward the bottom of the page.
Does my school register only one champion?
Yes. We strongly suggest that you record the name of your second place finisher and submit their name when you register your champion, just in case your champion is not able to compete and your second place finisher needs to represent your school the morning of the regional spelling bee.
Will vocabulary be included in the Southwest Idaho Regional Spelling Bee?
No. You are welcome to incorporate it into your school or classroom bees, but vocabulary will not be a part of the Southwest Idaho Regional Spelling Bee.
How will my school get information updates?
Information updates will be posted from time-to-time to the pages under www.boisestate.edu/research/spelling-bee. An email informing you that an update has been posted will be sent to the name and email you submit as the Contact Person for your school when you register (so please make sure that whoever you submit as the Contact Person is either the person who will supervise your school’s spelling bee or is someone who can pass along information to that person in a timely manner).
Awards
Prizes for the winning bee will be provided by Boise State Division of Research and Economic development and Merriam Webster.