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Broomfield resident Jake Smith, 13, remained in the Scripps National Spelling Bee after four rounds, while Alec Ryan Smith, 11, of Highlands Ranch misspelled “spatiography” in the second round.
Jake, an eighth-grader at Aspen Creek K-8 School, advanced to round five. To get there, he correctly spelled “clairaudient,” “ampulla” and “decorum.”
Jake is sponsored by the Daily Camera in Boulder.
Alec Ryan Smith, a sixth-grader at Summit View Elementary School, was sponsored by the Rocky Mountain News in Denver. He gave the spelling “spaciography” for “spatiography.”
The Denver Post
