Before winning the Arkansas State Spelling Bee on Saturday, Sara Chen seemed to falter in one of the final rounds, when it was just her and another girl, but after requesting a definition for the word "whydah,

An eighth-grader from Bright Horizon Academy will be going to Washington, D.C., to represent San Diego County in the national spelling bee this May. Duaa Ouznali competed for over five hours at the San Diego County Scripps Regional Spelling Bee on Thursday before winning with the word “droshky,

She tackled the word, droshky, a public carriage used in Russia, to win the local title and the right to compete at the National Spelling Bee in May.

Ouznali endured nearly 30 rounds of spelling and vocabulary confrontations; she ultimately won the competition after correctly spelling "droshky," which is defined as a public carriage used in Russia.

Feb. 27, Matthew Haller, an 8th grade student at Horizon Prep in Rancho Santa Fe, competed with 25 other students in the ACSI Western Division Spelling Bee. The students represented

Duaa Ouznali, an 8th grader from Bright Horizon Academy, joined ABC 10News anchors Jared Aarons and Melissa Mecija on set following her victory in the Scripps Regional Spelling Bee for San Diego County.