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| Scripps National Spelling Bee 2012 Winner |
The 8th grader clinched the title after spelling the French-derived word "guetapens" correctly in the 13th round of the Champions Finals held on Thursday night at the Gaylord National, in Oxon Hill, Maryland.
Coming in at second place was Stuti Mishra, a 14-year-old from Orlando, Fla. while Arvind Mahankali, a 12-year-old from Bayside Hills, N.Y. settled for third place for the second straight year.
Nandipati, 14, is a student at Francis Parker School, a private school in Mission Valley. A semifinalist last year, she became the fifth consecutive Indian-American to win the title and 10th in the last 14 years.
As the winner, Nandipati received a $30,000 cash prize and an engraved loving cup trophy from Scripps, a $2,500 savings bond, a reference library from Merriam-Webster, $2,600 in reference works and a lifetime membership to Britannica Online Premium from Encyclopædia Britannica, $5,000 cash prize from the Sigma Phi Epsilon Educational Foundation, and an online course and a Nook eReader from K12 Inc.
The Scripps National Spelling Bee is a highly competitive annual spelling bee in the United States from the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and Department of Defense Dependents Schools in Europe; as well as the Bahamas, Canada, China, Ghana, Jamaica, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea. This year is the 85th time the competition was held.
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