SCRIPPS NATIONAL SPELLING BEE
AT EAGLE VIEW ELEMENTARY
Each year 11 million students compete in spelling bees at the school level, learning important new words along the way. Each year, EVES participates in the Scripps National Spelling Bee as one of our premier programs. We will be holding the Spelling Bee again in January/February 2026. Our school champion will then move on to represent Eagle View in the next level of the Fairfax County regionals in March, 2026 at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, VA.
CLASSROOM BEES
In January 2026, each classroom will hold a spelling bee using the competition lists provided to the homeroom teachers, which students should study prior to the spelling competition. Scripps has broken up these competition lists by structure (either spelling only or spelling and vocabulary) and grade level.
Students who win their classroom bee are eligible to participate in the School Spelling Bee, where all champions of all grades compete together, though participation is completely optional.
​
SCHOOL BEE
Winners of the classroom bees will receive a new list of words to study in order to compete in the school bee on February 4, 2026. If the classroom champion is unable or unwilling to participate, the runner up will be offered the opportunity to compete. All grades, first through sixth, compete together.
SCHOOL BEE RULES
The following are the most crucial rules to understand about our school spelling bee:
-
Don't be late! There is no entry after the official spelling bee start time unless previously coordinated by an adult caregiver.
-
If you start to spell a word, you may start over BUT the sequence of letters may not be changed.
-
If a speller spells a word incorrectly, the speller is immediately disqualified from the competition, except in a championship round.
-
There is a 2-minute time limit to spell a word.
-
A speller may ask questions about a word:
-
Its language of origin,
-
Its part of speech
-
An alternate pronunciation, if available,
-
Its definition,
-
Use the word in a sentence.
-
​
The document below is the complete and comprehensive rule set.
​​​
​​
​
AWARDS
Each school bee participant receives a certificate and a medal. First, second and third place winners receive trophies at the end of the competition.
2025 EVES WINNERS
Champion
Name - 5th Grade (Mrs. Krebs)
Second Place
Name - 5th Grade
Third Place
Name - 6th Grade
FAIRFAX COUNTY CHAMPIONS
2025: Nikita Ramakrishnan, Rocky Run MS 8th grader
2024: Ankita Balaji, Rachel Carson MS
2023: Charlotte Walsh, Homeschool
2022: Charlotte Walsh, Homeschool
2021: Akshita Balaj - Carson MS
2020: Not held due to COVID
2019: Akshita Balaji - McNair ES
2018: Eric Kim - Wakefield Forest ES
2017: Reshmi Balakrishnan - Greenbriar West ES
2016: Eric Kim - Wakefield Forest ES
2015: Trisha Balakrishnan - Greenbriar West ES
2014: Jae Canetti - Hunters Woods ES
2013: Jae Canetti - Hunters Woods ES
2012: Jae Canetti - Hunters Woods ES
NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
2025: Faizan Zaki from Allen, Texas
2024: Bruhat Soma from St. Petersburg, Florida
2023: Dev Shahe from Largo, Florida
2022: Harini Logan from San Antonio, Texas
2021: Zaila Avant-garde from New Orleans, Louisiana
2019: Rishik Gandhasri from San Jose, California
Erin Howard from Huntsville, Alabama
Saketh Sundar from Clarksville, Maryland
Shruthika Padhy from Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Sohum Sukhatankar from Dallas, Texas
Abhijay Kodali from Flower Mound, Texas
Christopher Serrao from Whitehouse Station, New Jersey
Rohan Raja from Irving, Texas
2018: Karthik Nemmani from McKinney, Texas
2017: Ananya Vinay from Fresno, California
2016: Jairam Hathwar from Corning, New York
Nihar Saireddy Janga from Austin, Texas
2015: Vanya Shivashankar from Olathe, Kansas
Gokul Venkatachalam from St. Louis, Missouri
2014: Sriram J. Hathwar from Corning, New York
Ansun Sujoe from Fort Worth, Texas
2013: Arvind Mahankali from New York City
2012: Snigdha Nandipati from San Diego, California