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Pace '23 wins second straight spelling bee
Kyler Pace '23 won the Middle School Spelling Bee for the second consecutive year, topping runner-up Liv Steinhardt '23 by successfully spelling the word liaise. Boris Bialer '22, Ian Fox '24, Cecilia Granda-Scott '22, Sofia Rua '24, Tyler Woodard '23 and Nandika Yadav '24 made it through the opening round Nov. 30 to compete in the eight-student final on Dec. 7.
Pace outlasted Steinhardt in a fun finale, tangling over words including parenthetical, truculently, subnivean, slumgullion, and posthumous. As the Ransom Everglades champion, he will compete at the Miami-Dade Spelling Bee in March. Middle School English Coordinator Jody Salzinger carried out the event.
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.