Mt. Lebanon Student Competes In National Spelling Bee

A Mt. Lebanon student is part of the big buzz in Washington, D.C., this week. She is taking part in the 83rd National Spelling Bee.

14-year-old Anna Wadhwani is an eighth-grader at Thomas Jefferson Middle School.

She is one of 273 students - ranging in age from 8 to 15 - vying for the title of world's best speller. The last person left spelling will take home more than $40,000 in cash and prizes.

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Mt. Lebanon Student Wins Spelling Bee

After a final competition that lasted more than three hours and had 19 rounds, 14-year-old Anna Wadhwani, an eighth-grader at Thomas Jefferson Middle School, won first place in the 60th annual Western Pennsylvania Spelling Bee.

Anna's winning words -- the last speller standing must spell two consecutive words correctly -- were conjunctivitis, and, fittingly, logomachy: a dispute over or about words.

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