Spelling Bee 'Fever' Hits Deer Park Schools

DEER PARK, NY — Students in Deer Park School district proved that learning is fun while competing in their spring spelling bee.

School officials aid spelling bee fever took over two of the district's schools as students "feverishly" prepped for the contests and engaged in a high-stakes battle for spelling
supremacy.

At John F. Kennedy Intermediate School, students in the Let’s Make a Difference Club hosted the school’s second annual spelling bee. After a preliminary round, the top 20 students in the third,
fourth and fifth grades met in the finals to earn the title of champion from each grade.

The winners each received a $50 check and the bee raised around $1,000 and three crates of food for the Saints Cyril & Methodius Church food pantry in Deer Park.

Meanwhile, Robert Frost Middle School students caught spelling bee fever too, with 40 students in sixth, seventh and eighth grades competing in classroom mini-bees before those winners moved on to the annual building-wide competition.

After 20 rounds, eighth grader Ryan Lin took the win, with seventh grader Shayan Hassan and sixth grader Bisaj Paul as runners-up. The win qualified Lin and Hassan to move on to the Regional Spelling Bee, hosted at Bay Shore Middle School against winners from around
Long Island.

“Congratulations to all participants,” Director John F. Kennedy Intermediate School
of ELA, Reading and Library Justin Uliano said.