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The national buzz (excuse the pun) may be about the 80th Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee and its 13 year old champion Evan O‘Dorney but as I write this, words like j-u-a-n-e-t-e are making champions out of school children. That’s because Scholastic Inc. is holding the 2007 NYC Spanish Spelling Bee (El Certamen de
Deletreo en Español de la Ciudad de Nueva York) in its auditorium and NY1 Noticias is airing the competition live. Regional champs in grades 4, 5 and 6 compete within their own grade. So far the winners have been fourth grader Richard Torrenegra with “juanete” and fifth grader Jhonny Herredia Marmol with “autobús”.