Pepperell High School student Danny Wilson correctly spelled “cactus” and then “sword” to win the Floyd County Schools (FCS) District Spelling Bee Wednesday morning at Armuchee High School.
Thirteen Floyd County students put their spelling skills to the test in the annual competition sponsored by the Floyd County Chapter of the Georgia Association of Educators (GAE). Pepperell Middle’s Ella Craver won second place and will serve as the alternate for FCS at the next level of competition. Danny will represent FCS next at the GAE Region 1 Spelling Bee on Saturday, February 22, 2025, at Georgia Highlands College Lakeview Building.
Each attendance area sent its school representative to the FCS District Spelling Bee in hopes of taking home the title and a chance to advance to the regional competition. Students in grades 3-8 are eligible for the competition. The group of spellers went through twelve rounds of words before a champion was declared in the event.
The event is sponsored each year by the Floyd County Chapter of the Georgia Association of Educators. FCS Spelling Bee Coordinator and district ELA Specialist Brittney Phinazee welcomed the audience and spellers on behalf of the system, then read the rules and explained the process of the bee; Director of Instructional Technology & Online Learning/School Media Programs Celena Arrington was the pronouncer of the words; and FCS Fine Arts Coordinator Sherry Childs, FCS Middle School Literacy Coach Lindsay Norton, and Director of School Improvement & Data Analytics Jason Brock served as judges.
School Spelling Bee winners who participated in the FCS district bee:
Armuchee Elementary: Ryker Clinage
Armuchee Middle: Ava Blackburn
Alto Park: Judith Martinez
Garden Lakes: Alex Pablo-Bautista
Coosa Middle: Jamison Charles
Coosa High: Philip Cannon
Model Elementary: Elias Nottingham
Johnson Elementary: Maddie Grace Maulding
Model Middle: Mary James Powell
Model High: Alexander Tomlinson
Pepperell Elementary: Landon Newberry
Pepperell Middle: Ella Craver
Pepperell High: Danny Wilson
Photos from the bee can be found here.
