Pima County Spelling Bee

This last saturday, February 18,2012, Damian competed in the Pima County Spelling Bee. It was held at the Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind (ASDB). He was given participant #5 and there were 45 competing. They didn't let us take pictures of the actual Bee but I took 1 before it started. Damian finished in 10th place out of 45 and we are proud of him. What an experience! He says he will win next year.
The next day we received a call that he was in the Sunday Arizona Daily Star newspaper. Here is the link.

http://azstarnet.com/news/local/spell-binding/article_34f92839-6689-54f8-86c6-5bd0f835c879.html

BTW: the word he missed was aggregate (He spelled it too fast and left out a g)

The word is Winner... W-I-N-N-E-R....

The kid's school Spelling Bee was held on Friday and Damian and Aubrey were both participants. Aubrey is in 3rd grade this year and Damian is in 7th grade. Aubrey went through round 5. She missed a 5th grade word "municipal". Damian went to round 20 (the last 4 rounds were words that were not given ahead of time to study) and spelled "miscellaneous" correctly and was declared the champion for Tucson Country Day School. He will represent the school in the Pima County Spelling Bee on February 18th. Way to go kids!!!!





















Here is also the video of the final rounds. It is a little over 4 minutes long.


The funny story is.... Damian had been on restriction before this. The night before the Spelling Bee he came and asked me how he could get off restriction. I told him, "If you win the Spelling Bee tomorrow, you might get off restriction." Well, Damian took the challenge to heart. Right after he was awarded the trophy, he headed straight towards me. I was thinking he was coming to give me a big hug for helping him study for the last 2 months..... but no. He stopped in front of me holding the trophy and said, "Mom, we have some business to discuss."
That is such Damian. I guess it motivated him.
(Yes, he did get off restriction.)