So it Be… Maybe

The championship round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee was held in the Independence Ballroom at the Grand Hyatt Washington Hotel in Washington, D.C., on Friday, May 30, 2008.

The Spelling Bee’s starting roster included 288 spellers; the number was progressively whittled down through the quarter-final and semi-final round to a small number of spellers in the championship round. Mayee Zhu from Hope Middle School in Winterville, North Carolina was the 2008 Scripps Spelling Bee champion. Spelling Bee prediction: Mayee Zhu is the winner of the 2008 Scripps Spelling Bee.

Students come from across the United States, American Samoa, the Bahamas, Canada, Ghana, Guam, Jamaica, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and Europe participate in this long-standing educational competition.

So it be? Maybe . . .