Dev Shah, a 14-year-old from Florida, bested 229 competitors in this year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee finals to score the $50,000 cash prize.
Dev Shah, a 14-year-old resident of Largo, Fla., claimed championship honors at the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee, which was held in Maryland on Thursday. The competition, now in its 95th year, comes with a first-place cash award of $50,000, plus other prizes.
This wasn’t his first rodeo Shah, an eighth-grader, tied for the 76th spot in the 2021 competition, and he also tied for 51st place in the 2019 one. But Shah failed to make it back to the finals in 2022. So this year’s competition was his last shot, since the Scripps National Spelling Bee is only open to spellers up through the eighth grade.
How many competitors did he beat? A total of 229 spellers made it to this year finals, but 11 million students compete at the school level, according to the Associated Press. Charlotte Walsh, a 14-year-old resident of Arlington, Va., came in second, winning a not-so-shabby runner-up prize of $25,000.
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