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Breaking The Bee: Indian Kids Are Spelling Out a New Sport in America
19 of 95 Spelling Bee winners have been Indian-American children. Winning the spelling bee competitions gives the Indian-American community a “platform to unabashedly flaunt their Americanness”.
Akash Vukoti entered his first Spelling Bee contest when he was 2 years old. He was still in diapers. He won his first competition when he was 4. And became the youngest speller at the nationals in 2016, at the age of six. Now 8, Vukoti will take another crack at the title next week at an oceanside resort complex outside Washington DC that hosts the national Scripps Spelling Bee.