Five students grades 4-8 made it to the final round of the Eliot School’s Annual Spelling Bee. The winner, Nicla from grade 6, will compete in the BCYF Citywide Spelling Bee in March! The Eliot Spelling Bee was moderated by Nazzaro Center Director Steve Siciliano. Congratulations to the five finalists: Tejas (grade 4), Teddy (grade Read More…
Mira Yu and Nicla Marabito, both students from the North End, finished first and second in the recent Boston Center for Youth and Families (BCYF) Citywide Spelling Bee, sponsored by the Boston Bruins Foundation. Mira, age 12, is a seventh grade student at Boston Latin School. She took first place and will go on to Read More…
Once again, the Nazzaro Center was well represented in Boston’s Regional Spelling Bee, held at the Boston Public Library at Copley Square on Saturday March 19. With the ultimate prize an all-expenses-paid trip for two to the National Championship in Washington D.C., St. John School fifth grader Ryan Gohlmann and Eliot School sixth grader Mira Yu, both Read More…
Before February vacation the Eliot K-8 Innovation school held our Annual Spelling Bee for students in Grades 4-8. Our powerful partner, Mr. Carl Ameno, from the Nazzaro Center was the moderator and four students participated in the final round. Congratulations to all the finalists. Fourth grader Jadon Berkson, fifth grader Nicolas Mansour, sixth grader Mira Read More…
On Saturday, March 19, Eliot School fifth grader Mira Yu will compete in the Citywide Scripps National Spelling Bee. Mira advanced to the citywide competition after winning three rounds of competition at school – the homeroom, grade-level, and whole school bee. The Eliot School Spelling Bee, moderated by Carl Ameno of the Nazzaro Center, included Read More…
Seven years ago, the city of Boston joined the national Scripps Spelling Bee competition and announce that it would begin to send a representative to the finals in Washington DC. And right there at the beginning, the Nazzaro Center has been instrumental in seeing that the North End community was included. And so, for the Read More…
The City of Boston, under the supervision of its Centers for Youth and Families department, staged the 7th annual Scripps Spelling Bee regional finals at the Copley Library on Saturday March 22 and once again, the North End and the Nazzaro Center were well represented. Three Nazzaro participants, Domenic Orlando (St. John’s), Jacob Stein (Eliot) Read More…
For the 7th consecutive year, since its Boston inauguration, the Nazzaro Center has hosted a regional spelling bee for the local North End schools and will be sending two representatives to the Boston finals at the Copley Library on March 22. As the chosen Boston entity to administer the local Bees that ultimately send the Read More…
Three local youth are headed to the Boston Finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee contest to be held at the Rabb Lecture Hall in the Copley Library on March 16th. Representing their schools, Jacob Stein (Eliot), Sarah Knotts (St. John) and Rohan Sheth (Learning Project) are all hopeful that this is just another stop before Read More…
The North End’s Ross Garrity, 13, won Boston’s Spelling Bee on Saturday earning him a trip to the national level competition. Appropriately, the Boston Latin 7th-grader won by spelling “ravioli” as his final word. Ross is a repeat winner from 2008 in the city’s competition. He is the son of Ilene Gladstone and the late Judge Read More…