“I’m just going to try my best and I’m happy to be here!”
PARMA HEIGHTS, Ohio — The pride of Incarnate Word Academy and Strongsville, Ohio is preparing to hit the national stage.
His parents say they knew he had a gift when he started playing with those tiny, magnetic letters of the alphabet when he was around 3 years old.They remain completely enamored by him today. When you ask Nishit to spell or provide the definition of a word, his skillset is incomparable. He's a human dictionary.He won his school spelling bee and then took the top prize in the regional bee, ultimately securing one of 231 spots in the Scripps National Spelling Bee this year.The students start taking Etymology—which is the study of the origin of words in preschool.Over time, Nishit says he fell in love with spelling and learning new words.
Longtime second-grade Incarnate Word Academy teachers and spelling coaches Cheryl Delbane and Jill Rolle blindly choose one of the 500,000 some words and the quizzing begins."I take direction from Advait because he's very knowledgeable about words," Delbane said.
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