Congratulations to all our students who participated in our annual spelling bee this year. We participate in the WCNY/Scripps National Spelling Bee every year and send two students to represent DMS in the Regional Rounds. This year we had over 400 students take the initial written spelling test. From there 23 students qualified to participate in the Schoolwide Oral Spelldown which was held on December 4th. Those students were: Margaret Moses, Justin Schoeneck, Sebastian LaVine, Hayden Sadler, Caroline Buff, Haley Duke, Miriam Rigas, Emily Falge, Gina McGivern, Nate VonHausen, Daniel Wrona, Rylan Randall, Jeffrey Shi, Amy Francesconi, Natalie Caldwell, Jackson Masters, Hannah Durand, Phillip Radionov, Noah Brown, Mason Barney, Joseph Perleoni, Colin Arnett, and Anna Perry.
Congratulations to our two finalist who will go on to represent us in the Regional Round in January. Dan Wrona and Emily Falge became our finalists in round 7! We have three alternates to fill in for Dan or Emily if they cannot continue: Dylan Randall, Colin Arnett and Anna Perry. There was a back and forth battle between Dan and Emily of an additional 5 rounds of words before we got to our DMS School Champion, Dan Wrona! Dan spelled correctly the final two words: armistice and carcinogen to become our champion. Dan was a semi finalist last year. Way to go Dan and Emily! Good luck in the next round.
