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Boston’s Best Spellers Celebrated at 12th Annual Citywide Spelling Bee; North Enders Take 1st and 3rd Place!

A crowd of family members, teachers, and friends were on hand to congratulate 21 Boston youth from across the City competing in Boston’s eleventh annual BCYF Citywide Spelling Bee at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square.  The winner of this year’s Bee was Nicla Mirabito age 12 from the North End’s Eliot K-8 School Read More…

Schools

Eliot School Spelling Bee Decides Citywide Bee Competitor

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…

Community Schools

Congratulations to Eliot K-8 Annual Spelling B.E.E. Finalists

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…

Community Schools

BCYF-Nazzaro Represented at Citywide Spelling Bee

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…

Community Schools

Neighborhood Spelling Bee Finalists Heading to Regional Finals

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…