This years 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee was won by a 13 year old New Yorker who took down his kryptonite in the very last seconds.
Every year kids take time off from their wild nights with their friends and pick up the dictionary to compete for the years Scripps National Spelling Bee title. This year the lucky and talented speller was a boy named Arvind Mahankali who took down his trouble of spelling German based words and spelt knaidel with ease.
According to FOX News, Mahankali won third place in both 2011 and 2012 by facing defeat German based words both times.
"The German curse has turned into a German blessing," he said.
This year not only was the word to get into the finals German, but the winning word was in fact a German word derived from Yiddish. This is the 11th Indian-American to win the spelling bee in the last 15 years, and the 6th Indian-American to win in a row to win it.
The eighth grader from National Hawthorne Middle school in Queens New York takes this as a blessing and a fine way to end his Spelling Bee legacy according to The New York Post. He plans on taking a little more time learning and focusing on physics with Albert Eisenstein being his role model:
“It means that I am retiring on a good note,” said the young genius. It also means that he will be winning a whopping $30,000 cash too along with a $2,500 savings bond.
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