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SIS Student Headed to State Spelling Bee
With the winning word being oregano, Zoe Bockhorst will represent Shorewood at the state spelling bee competition in late March, putting her one step closer to representing Wisconsin in the national spelling bee.
After 22 rounds of spelling, it all came down to oregano. The word before that, beleaguer, was difficult, Shorewood Intermediate School seventh-grader Zoe Bockhorst said, but she put the letters in their proper order, and followed it up, spelling oregano with ease to win the regional spelling bee competition. "This year's word was actually quite easy for me to spell," she said, noting last year she got the word thesaurus, and misspelled it thesaurous during regionals. Correctly spelling 20 words in the regional spelldown like “aristocracy” and “subterfuge," Zoe is now headed to the Badger State Spelling Bee competition on March 23 in Madison. Shorewood participates in the Scripps National Spelling Bee program, meaning Zoe is one step …
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