![Daigle & St. Onge Win Spelling Bee at MSAD#33 in St. Agatha](http://townsquare.media/site/529/files/2022/01/attachment-272815292_2383582101778517_7225850577864004701_n.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Daigle & St. Onge Win Spelling Bee at MSAD#33 in St. Agatha
St. Agatha was the place to be
The competition was friendly, fierce, and high-pressured Wednesday morning inside a local gymnasium. MSAD #33, the Wisdom school district hosted their district Spelling Bee for students in fifth-grade through eighth-grade.
Thank you to the organizers
Wisdom Middle/High School's Facebook page took time to recognize, applaud, and thank Mrs. Vicki Deschaine for running the event. Several girls and boys in grades 5-8 were vying for bragging rights as the best at orthography. (I looked that word up online, apparently orthography is a conventional spelling system.") Enough about me, let's meet the winners.
Jacob Daigle and Keagan St. Onge
Congratulations to the winner of the district Spelling Bee, eighth-grade student Jacob Daigle. The runner-up was seventh-grade student Keagan St. Onge!
Did you know?
The panel of judges for today's event were three volunteers, and the district thanked them for taking time to be a part of the Spelling Bee. I am thankful to see that there are people who are still willing to give their time to the future generations. The Spelling Bee is a nationally recognized event, and the National competition is broadcasted on ESPN and ABC during primetime. A focused effort on promoting the event has helped its popularity grow in recent years.
This accomplishment is more impressive now than years ago
When I was going through school, we were always told to not become reliant on high tech tools like calculators and spell-check on older versions of Microsoft Word. The students today have had auto-correct and many other developed tools that have made life easier, but some feel the tools have become too efficient and our learning gaps become larger. Seeing a large group of students competing in a traditional Spelling Bee is a very refreshing sight.
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