Via: defendernetwork.com
The inaugural African American National Spelling Bee Championships (AANSBC) will take place in Houston. Winners from the hundreds of students at several local schools who recently participated in campus-wide spelling bees will compete in the championships for prizes.
The championships will be held on Saturday, May 14, at 9 a.m. at Yates High School, 3703 Sampson St.
Organizers of the event hope to get more Blacks excited about spelling, a critical building block to teaching children how to read. They also hope to inspire the first African-American child to win the prestigious Scripps National Spelling Bee, an occurrence that has not happened in the event’s 85-year history (the fictional victory in the movie “Akeelah and the Bee” notwithstanding).
“We believe that the most important need in our community right now is the education of our young people,” said Jacqueline Terrell, executive director of the AANSBC. “Nationally, there is an achievement gap that exists between the performance of our youth and youth of other cultures, especially in the area of reading. We are using spelling as a tool to create better readers.”
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