{"id":16798,"date":"2017-06-02T17:46:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T00:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=16798"},"modified":"2017-06-02T17:46:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T00:46:35","slug":"m-a-r-o-c-a-i-n-marocain-ananya-vinay-from-fresno-calif-takes-the-90th-spelling-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/m-a-r-o-c-a-i-n-marocain-ananya-vinay-from-fresno-calif-takes-the-90th-spelling-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cM-a-r-o-c-a-i-n, Marocain\u201d: Ananya Vinay from Fresno, Calif., Takes the 90th Spelling Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>12-year-old Ananya Vinay of Fresno, Calif., holds her trophy after winning the 2017 Scripps National Spelling Bee by spelling the word &#8220;marocain,&#8221; at Gaylord National Resort &amp; Convention Center June 1, in National Harbor, Maryland. Close to 300 spellers are competing in the annual spelling contest for the top honor this year. (Mark Wilson\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Ananya Vinay, a 12-year-old Indian American girl, won the prestigious Scripps National Spelling Bee, taking home a $40,000 cash prize after correctly spelling \u201cmarocain\u201d to become the 13<sup>th<\/sup> consecutive winner from the community.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A sixth-grader from Fresno, California, Ananya won the spelling competition after competing for 12 hours and spelled 35 words correctly.<\/p>\n<p>Her rival was Rohan Rajeev, another 14-year-old Indian American student from Oklahoma, misspelled the word \u2018marram\u2019 which is a coarse grass found on sandy beaches.<\/p>\n<p>Ananya\u2019s victory underscores the overwhelming dominance of Indian Americans in the annual intense competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to our 2017 Scripps National Spelling Bee Champion, Ananya Vinay. What a fantastic performance!\u201d the National Spelling Bee\u2019s official account tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe played to win and win she did. Ananya Vinay takes home the 2017 Scripps National Spelling Bee Champion title and trophy,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>More than 11 million youngsters aged between six and 15 from all 50 U.S. states, U.S. territories such as Puerto Rico and Guam and countries such as Japan and Jamaica had entered the nerve-racking competition.<\/p>\n<p>Ananya and Rajeev were the last two standing of the initial 291 spellers.<\/p>\n<p>Ananya captured the 90<sup>th<\/sup> championship title by correctly spelling \u201cmarocain,\u201d which is a dress fabric made from silk or rayon, during the 36<sup>th<\/sup> round of the annual competition held at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in suburban Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like a dream come true, I\u2019m so happy right now. I just focused on my word and tried to spell it right,\u201d said Ananya upon receiving the winner\u2019s trophy.<\/p>\n<p>In a post-victory interview, Ananya told reporters she was able to recognize one of the final words as it had been mentioned in her social studies book.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can find words in interesting places,\u201d she was quoted as saying by the <i>USA Today.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Ananya is the 13<sup>th<\/sup> consecutive Indian American winner of the competition and the 18<sup>th<\/sup> of the past 22 winners with Indian heritage, a run that began in 1999 with Nupur Lala\u2019s victory, which was featured in the documentary \u201cSpellbound.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ananya honed her skill in highly competitive national bees that are limited to Indian Americans, the North South Foundation and the South Asian Spelling Bee, although she did not win either.<\/p>\n<p>Ananya\u2019s victory broke the Bee\u2019s three-year streak of ending in a tie. She wins $40,000 in cash, a trophy and other prizes, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about her competitor, Rohan, Ananya said, \u201cIt was interesting to go back and forth for so many rounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The annual contest opened, May 30, with a record 291 spellers from across the country and the globe. The field was narrowed to 40 finalists, May 31, based upon two oral rounds of spelling and the results of a written spelling and vocabulary test.<\/p>\n<p>By June 1 afternoon, just 15 spellers were still standing and went on to compete for the championship whose final rounds were broadcast live.<\/p>\n<p>The National Bee is a high-profile, high-pressure endurance test as much as a nerd spelling match and spellers spend months preparing for it.<\/p>\n<p>The stress of competing against the dictionary was etched on many spellers\u2019 faces as they took their turn at the microphone and in front of the television cameras.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pretty nervous,\u201d Nikhil Lahiri, 14, of Painted Post, NY, confessed from the stage, just seconds before correctly spelling \u201coutarde,\u201d which is a Canadian goose.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s 291 spellers represented all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Department of Defense Schools in Europe. 11 came from the Bahamas, Canada, Ghana, Jamaica, Japan and South Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#Scripps #SpellingBee #National @TiESV #TiESV #IndianAmerican \u2013 Ananya Vinay, a 12-year-old Indian American girl, won the prestigious Scripps National Spelling Bee, taking home a $40,000 cash prize after correctly spelling \u201cmarocain\u201d to become the 13th consecutive winner from the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[275,20],"tags":[358,106,3347,147],"class_list":["post-16798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-youth","tag-tiesv","tag-indian-american","tag-scripps-national-spelling-bee","tag-siliconeer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}