Nineteen public school students and six private school students will vie to become the champion of the 34th annual Anne Arundel County Spelling Bee on March 19, 2022. The event will be held in person this year at 10 a.m. in the Board Room of the Parham Building, located at 2644 Riva Road in Annapolis.
The county bee is presented by the Anne Arundel County Public Schools Office of Secondary Reading, English, & Integrated Literacy. This year’s presenting sponsor is Development Facilitators, Inc. (DFI). The event sponsors are Educational Systems Federal Credit Union, BGE, Comcast, DALY Computers, M&T Bank, and Horace Mann. The champion sponsors for this year are American College of Education, JMT, and Whiting Turner.
The champion of the county bee wins an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., to compete in the 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee in May. There will be other prizes for the county’s top spellers, including monetary awards from Educational Systems Federal Credit Union as well as reference books and gift items from Merriam Webster, Medieval Times, Anne Arundel County Public Library, Chick-fil-A of Annapolis, and Wegmans of Crofton.
The Scripps National Spelling Bee is a not-for-profit educational promotion sponsored by The E.W. Scripps Company in conjunction with businesses and community organizations around the world. Each sponsor organizes a spelling bee program in its community with the cooperation of area school officials: private, charter, parochial, public, and home schools.
Participants in this year’s bee, listed in order of the school they represent, are:
- Annapolis Middle School: Audrey Yankus
- Arundel Middle School: Gavin Dean-St. Clair
- Brooklyn Park Middle School: Briana Hathaway
- Central Middle School: Calvin Henggeler
- Chesapeake Bay Middle School: Odin Arnell
- Corkran Middle School: Addison Simmons
- Crofton Middle School: Jackson Olexy
- Indian Creek School: Isabelle Sussman
- Lindale Middle School: Uwaezoke Ihechi
- Macarthur Middle School: Seylah Sutton
- Magothy River Middle School: Gautham Thangaavel
- Marley Middle School: Chloe Smith
- Meade Middle School: Gavin Lacey
- Monsignor Slade Catholic School: London Smith
- Northeast Middle School: Hailey Scott
- Old Mill Middle School North: Jacob Urban-Davis
- Old Mill Middle School South: Liam Smith
- Severn River Middle School: Cassandra White
- Severn School: Lottie Morgan
- Severna Park Middle School: Reid Bergstrom
- Southern Middle School: Lillian Martin
- St. Anne’s School of Annapolis: Jameson Cutler
- St. Martin Lutheran School: Denis Hein
- St. Paul’s Lutheran School: Julian Weisman
- Wiley H. Bates Middle School: Jeannette Manseau
Poster of 2022 Anne Arundel County Spelling Bee Participants