Do you know who sponsors your community spelling bee program? Visit bit.ly/43WT7VO to check out all of the Regional Partners that provide students around the world with the pathway to compete, from the classroom level all the way to the National Competition. #spellingbee

It's the most a-PEEL-ing day of the month: National Banana Day! Before you SPLIT to the next post, tell us a fun fact about bananas. Extra points if it's about bibingka.

Merriam-Webster, the official dictionary of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. #wordoftheweek #spellingbee

From the Bee Archives! Throwback to 2014 when mega Bee fan John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars, invited our co-Champions to the New York City movie premiere. John showed his love for the Bee and even offered Bee Champion Ansun Sujoe a job! #spellingbee

Did you know the IRS receives many tax returns every year on which people misspell their own names? It's true. Double check those spellings if you're filing today!

It’s apple blossom season! Did you know when you bite into an apple you are biting into its hypanthium? Hawkins, a grower from SugarBee® Apple®, tells us a bit more about this interesting word. #OhHoneyTHATSGood

Make a run for the dictionary. #LiveMas

#FridayFunny 😂

Shhh! It's National Library Week. 📚 We love our libraries! What's something you love about yours? Tag your favorite to thank them for all they do.

Merriam-Webster, the official dictionary of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. #wordoftheweek #spellingbee

It's the 20th anniversary of David Tidmarsh's breathtaking win at the 2004 Scripps National Spelling Bee! Take two minutes out of your day and relive that magical moment. #spellingbee #tbt

It's National Library Week! #DYK the Haskell Free Library & Opera House sits directly on the U.S./Canada border? You can walk in from Stanstead, Quebec, and walk out into Derby Line, Vermont. You don’t need a passport, but you must return to your country of origin or risk fines.

Just 50 more days until the start of the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee! #spellingbee #countdown

Looking for an expert on Henry VIII and the Elizabethan era in England and Wales? Your search is over. 😂

#FridayFunny

Our Bee's Bookshelf Book of the Month for April is Total Garbage by Rebecca Donnelly! We are giving away 5 free copies, courtesy of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group. Sign up at bit.ly/Apr24Sweeps by April 30 for your chance to win! #sweepstakes #spellingbee

Today is American Circus Day! It commemorates the anniversary of the first circus performance in the United States on April 3, 1793, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Merriam-Webster, the official dictionary of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. #wordoftheweek #spellingbee

Did you know the Akron Beacon Journal has sponsored 5 Scripps National Spelling Bee Champions? That's the 2nd most in Bee history. The most recent: William Kerek (pictured) in 1964, preceded by Jean Chappelear (1948), Clara Mohler (1935), Alma Roach (1933) and Dean Lucas (1927).

Maybe the sign is referring to 'dough-berman' pinschers? 😂

#oops #FridayFunny

Did you know the word 'epihippus' means an extinct genus of the horse that lived 40 million years ago? Ben Evans did, and that was his winning word at the San Diego County Scripps Regional Spelling Bee.

Congrats, Ben! We'll see you at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in May!

Today's Word of the Week is as fun to say as it is to spell. Do you have a word you enjoy saying and spelling? If you do, share it with us!

Merriam-Webster, the official dictionary of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. #wordoftheweek #spellingbee

Congrats Isaac!

Congratulations Aliyah!

CONGRATULATIONS to Creekside Park Junior High 8th grader Ishika Varipilli on capturing 1st place at the Houston Regional Spelling Bee to advance to her third straight Scripps National Spelling Bee!

She captured 1st after 8 rounds with the winning word: 'scrannel'.