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Calm Tower Lakes teen finishes second in National Spelling Bee | |
May 31, 2013 Competing in his third National Spelling Bee, 13-year-old Pranav Sivakumar of Tower Lakes said he was no longer nervous. It showed. Pranav took second place in the in the 86th Scripps National Spelling Bee, finishing second to Arvind Mahankali, 13, of New York. Both Pranav and Arvind rarely appeared flustered onstage, but Pranav was tripped up by "cyanophycean," the word for a blue-green alga. Source: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20130530/news/705309908/ |