Tyniah Atkins, Latavia Dailey, Tory James and Christian Hannon from Booker Elementary wait for the start of the 3rd grade section of the Sarasota Kiwanis Club's Spelling Bee Friday, May 13 at the Boys and Girls Club.
Spelling bee judges Kraig Koach and Dorothy Stuart with reader Jacki Boedecker at the Sarasota Kiwanis Club's Spelling Bee Friday, May 13 at the Boys and Girls Club.
Reader Larry Bowman with judges Mary Lynn Dejarlais, Nora Patterson and Jack Pilkington at the Sarasota Kiwanis Club's Spelling Bee Friday, May 13 at the Boys and Girls Club.
The 4th graders line up to begin the spelling bee Friday May 13 at the Boys and Girls Club.
Jacki Boedecker reads the word to one of the spellers while Kraig Koach and Dorothy Stuart wait to hear the correct spelling at the Sarasota Kiwanis Club's Spelling Bee Friday, May 13 at the Boys and Girls Club.
Parents take videos and photographs of their kids participating in the fourth grade portion of the spelling bee.
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Third graders who made it into the next round talk to one another excitedly at the Sarasota Kiwanis Club's Spelling Bee Friday, May 13 at the Boys and Girls Club.
Christian Knuth, a 3rd grader from Ashton, runs excitedly to the back of the correct spellers line after getting a difficult word correct.
Celia Jarrett slaps her hands on her thighs as she spells one of the words in the Sarasota Kiwanis Club's Spelling Bee Friday, May 13 at the Boys and Girls Club.
Jacob Wetsman, a fourth grader from Southside, spells the word he is given into the microphone at the Sarasota Kiwanis Club's Spelling Bee Friday, May 13 at the Boys and Girls Club.
Dorothy Stuart reads the definition of "malaria" from the dictionary for a student participating in the Sarasota Kiwanis Club's Spelling Bee Friday, May 13 at the Boys and Girls Club.
Elijah Firman gets high fives from his family as he makes his way back to the end of the line to be in the next round of the spelling bee.
