Sycamore School’s 6th/7th/8th Spell Bowl Team had an amazingly impressive day at Purdue University, winning the the 37th Annual Indiana Academic Spell Bowl State Finals.They had both the highest score overall of any team in any division, and only missed two words. Congratulations to Gavin Sigua, Akhil Jois, Ava Deng, Tess Eggeson, Mukund Sagi, Kaia Starnino, Sophie Liang, Riti Tandra, Hasini Ambaty, Aditya Bhatia, Alex Bramhill, Raza Hassan, and Coach Cummins.
4th/5th Grade Team: Sycamore also won the 29th Annual Indiana Academic Spell Bowl Area Contest championship Monday. To prepare for the competition, students learned to spell 750 words. During the competition, Sycamore spellers correctly spelled 55 of 56 given words. The team includes Dyer Thompson, Izzy Abraham, Sahana Pesek, Mikhaela Starnino, Caroline Cheng, Savannah Reymer, Zoe Singh, and Yohaan Cheryan. There is also an impressive group of alternates that includes: Violet Pangan, Addie Liu, Charlotte Pryor, Trey Overstreet, Prudy Peng, Lucy Ko, Lianna Cohen-Gadol, Steven Mason, and Kushi Chandra.
