District Spelling Bee Held at Valley Lutheran Middle & High School
The Annual Iowa District East Spelling Bee was held at Valley Lutheran School in Cedar Falls, on March 9th. Seven schools bringing fifty students, participated in the event. Each contestant received seventy-five words and six oral words, with the top three contestants from each of the three age levels moving on to an oral spell down to determine three trophy winners.
In the 3rd-4th grades, 1 st place went to Lydia Armbrecht, Lutheran Interparish, Williamsburg, 2nd place to Maddie Hodgins, Trinity Lutheran, Cedar Rapids, and 3rd place Abigail Howe, Central Lutheran, Newhall.
The 5th -6th place winners were: 1 st place Kaitlin Wille, Lutheran Interparish, Williamsburg, 2nd place to Carsten Zange, Trinity Lutheran, Cedar Rapids and 3rd place to Tyler Wille, Lutheran Interparish, Williamsburg.
7th-8th grade winners were: 1st place Emma Armbrecht, Lutheran Interparish, Williamsburg, 2nd place Austin Papini, Lutheran Interparish, Williamsburg and 3rd place Matthew Lavrenz, Trinity Lutheran, Cedar Rapids.
A traveling plaque was presented to Lutheran Interpaish, Williamsburg for earning 708 points in the competition. Second place in the point totals was Trinity Lutheran, Cedar Rapids and 3rd place was Community Lutheran, Readlyn.
Other schools competing were: Valley Lutheran, Cedar Falls, St. Paul Lutheran, Latimer and Dubuque Lutheran, Dubuque.
Sponsors of the event were: Eastern Iowa Lutheran High School Association, Quota Club International, Allstate Insurance- Scott Parson, Celia Simmer- Trapp Realtors, Iowa Sports Supply, Rack'Em Up Promotions, Street Smarts-Neil & Donna Jones, and Street Smarts LLC, Dan McElroy.
Pictured: Front row left to right: Lydia Armbrecht, Maddie Hodgins, Abigail Howe.
Middle row left to right: Carsten Zange, Tyler Wille, Kaitlin Wille.
Back row left to right: Matthew Lavrenz, Emma Armbrecht and Austin Papini.
