{"id":11072,"date":"2012-06-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/06\/02\/indian-kids-win-us-national-spelling-bee-for-fifth-year-in-a-row\/"},"modified":"2012-06-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T12:00:00","slug":"indian-kids-win-us-national-spelling-bee-for-fifth-year-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/06\/02\/indian-kids-win-us-national-spelling-bee-for-fifth-year-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Kids Win US National Spelling Bee for Fifth Year in a Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.nbc17.com\/news\/2012\/jun\/01\/14-year-old-san-diego-wins-spelling-bee-ar-2325741\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OXON HILL, MARYLAND, May 31, 2012 (NBC): Snigdha Nandipati heard a few words she didn&#8217;t know during the National Spelling Bee, but never when she stepped to the microphone. Calm and collected throughout, the 14-year-old from San Diego spelled &#8220;guetapens,&#8221; a French-derived word that means ambush, snare or trap, to win the 85th Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night. She beat out eight other finalists in the nerve-wracking, brain-busting competition. A semifinalist last year, Nandipati became the fifth consecutive Indian-American winner and 10th in the last 14 years, a run that began in 1999 when Nupur Lala won and was later featured in the documentary &#8220;Spellbound.&#8221;Stuti Mishra of West Melbourne, Fla., finished second after misspelling &#8220;schwarmerei&#8221; &#8211; which means excessive, unbridled enthusiasm. While many spellers pretend to write words with their fingers, the 14-year-old Mishra had an unusual routine &#8211; she mimed typing them on a keyboard. Nandipanti and Mishra frequently high-fived each other after spelling words correctly during the marathon competition. Coming in third for the second consecutive year was Arvind Mahankali of Bayside Hills, N.Y. At 12, the seventh-grader was the youngest of the nine finalists. He has one more year of eligibility remaining, and he pledged to return. Nandipati&#8217;s prize haul includes $30,000 in cash, a trophy, a $2,500 savings bond, a $5,000 scholarship, $2,600 in reference works from the Encyclopedia Britannica and an online language course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source OXON HILL, MARYLAND, May 31, 2012 (NBC): Snigdha Nandipati heard a few words she didn&#8217;t know during the National,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}