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The Sentinel  (June 2, 2012)

Indian-American wins US spelling contest for fifth year running

Washington, June 1: Indian Americans continued to demonstrate their 
spelling prowess when Snigdha Nandipati, a 14-year-old girl, correctly 
spelled “guetapens”, French word for ambush, to win the 2012 Scripps 
National Spelling Bee crown. She thus retained the coveted national 
honour for the community, that has been steadily growing in profile and 
influence, for the fifth straight year. “It’s a miracle,” said 
Nandipati from San Diego, California, as she pipped fellow Indian 
American Stuti Mishra (14) of West Melbourne, Florida who stumbled over 
“schwarmerei”, German for extravagant enthusiasm, in the last round of 
the final at a convention centre outside Washington on Thursday night. 
Nandipati, an avid reader and coin collector who aspires to become a 
psychiatrist or neurosurgeon, gets $30,000 in cash, a trophy, a $2,500 
savings bond, a $5,000 scholarship, $2,600 in reference works from the 
Encyclopedia Britannica and an online language course. (IANS)