Overview

The Bee is the nation’s largest and longest-running educational promotion, administered on a not-for-profit basis by The E.W. Scripps Company and 267 sponsors in the United States, Europe, Canada, New Zealand, Guam, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa.

Sponsorship is available on a limited basis to daily and weekly newspapers serving English-speaking populations around the world.  Each sponsor organizes a spelling bee program in its community with the cooperation of area school officials:  public, private, parochial, charter, virtual, and home schools.

Schools wishing to participate in the spelling bee arena must enroll with the national office to ensure their students are eligible to participate and to receive the materials needed to conduct classroom and school bees.  During enrollment, school bee coordinators receive their local sponsor’s program-specific information – local dates, deadlines, and participation guidelines.

To participate, your school – or a benefactor on behalf of your school – must enroll through the Scripps National Spelling Bee website.  The regular enrollment period usually ends in mid October.  There is a late enrollment period/extension offered each year.

The official study booklet is available free online to district teacher sponsors by logging into the Scripps National Spelling Bee website.

The champion of each sponsor’s final spelling bee advances to the Scripps National Spelling Bee competition in Washington, D.C.

Local Spelling Bee Program

Contact

ESC Spelling Bee Co-Coordinators

Jennifer Marrah, Consultant
P: (330) 345-6771 Ext. 237
email: tesc_jmarrah@tccsa.net

Debbie Stoler, Administrative Assistant
P: (330) 345-6771 Ext. 270
F: (330) 345-7622
email: tesc_stoler@tccsa.net