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Top Alameda Speller Qualifies for State Bee

Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Alameda County Office of Education photo. Ella Banchieri displays her second-place spelling bee trophy. Banchieri is flanked by left, Aisha Knowles, Alameda County Board of Education Trustees and right, Dawn O’Connor, Director of STEM and Science Partnership at the Alameda County Office of Education.

Alameda’s top speller, Ella Banchieri, an eighth grader at Lincoln Middle School, has been certified as an Alameda County Champion and will represent the county at the California State Spelling Bee, Saturday, May 4. Banchieri took second place at the Alameda County Junior High Spelling Bee on March 16. She came behind first-place speller Anisha Rao, an eighth grader at Fallon Middle School in the Dublin Unified School District.

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