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Andover Spelling Bee

an Andover Tradition since 1998            

 
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13th Annual Andover Spelling Bee
West Middle School

April 9 , 2010

2010 Champions
Andover High School "Word Warriors""

with Andover High School principal, Jonathan Harris


West Elementary School won the Spirit Award, which is given to the school supported by the most enthusiastic fans.

The Best Team Costume was awarded to West Middle School's "Spellraisers."
Other 2010 Teams
  

Memorial Hall Library "MHL Spellers"
Andover Rotary "Buccaneers"
  
Andover Historical Society "Society Spellers"
Doherty Middle School
  
Wood Hill Middle School "Wordchucks"
West Elementary "Beauties and the Beast"
  
Ironstone Farm
Sanborn School "Dog-gone Good Spellers"
  
A.V.I.S. "Treesaurus"
Shawsheen School
  
Andover Rotary "Gold Standards"
Bancroft School "Olympians"
  
West Elementary "Westspellementary"
Andover School of Montessori "The Bees"
  
High Plain Elementary "High Plain Drifters"
West Middle "Spellraisers"
  
 
 

last updated 4/11/09

Andover Spelling Bee History

Year/Location Overall Champions School Champions Spirit Award Winning Word
2010 West Middle School Andover High School "Word Warriors" Andover High School "Word Warriors" West Elementary School triskaidekaphobia:  fear of the number 13
2009 Wood Hill Middle School Andover High School "Word Warriors"

Andover High School "Word Warriors"

 Sanborn Elementary School babblative: tending to babble, prattle; loquacious
2008 Wood Hill Middle School Bancroft Elementary School "Word Builders" Bancroft Elementary School "Word Builders" Sanborn Elementary School ophthamologist: doctor who specializes in diseases and surgeries of the visual pathways
2007 Wood Hill Middle School Bancroft Elementary School "Letterheads" Bancroft Elementary School "Letterheads" Sanborn Elementary School liquefiable: capable of being reduced to a liquid state
2006 Wood Hill Middle School Andover Rotary Hornets  (Joan Johnson, Matt Gold, Helen Michel, John Colbert) Bancroft Elementary School "Letterheads" Bancroft Elementary School

bacciferous:  berry producing 
2005 Wood Hill Middle School Andover High School (Kathy Zalla, Mary Moran, Laurie Francis-Wright, Karen Shaheen Waters) Andover High School (Kathy Zalla, Mary Moran, Laurie Francis-Wright, Karen Shaheen Waters) Bancroft Elementary School

palustrine: pertaining to a marsh or swamp
2004 Wood Hill Middle School West Elementary School "Goodspellas"
(Kelly Doherty, Mary Miller, Nancy Ross, Martha Tubinis)		 West Elementary School "Goodspellas"
(Kelly Doherty, Mary Miller, Nancy Ross, Martha Tubinis)		 High Plain Elementary School speleology: the scientific study of caves
2003 Doherty Middle School West Elementary School "Goodspellas"
(Kelly Doherty, Mary Miller, Nancy Ross, Martha Tubinis)		 West Elementary School "Goodspellas"
(Kelly Doherty, Mary Miller, Nancy Ross, Martha Tubinis)		 South Elementary School corrodible: vulnerable to gradual destruction by chemical action
2002 Doherty Middle School T.E.A.M. Doherty
(Elaine Elliott, Terry Palerdy, Eric Nadworny, Eswar Eswarappa)
 T.E.A.M. Doherty
(Elaine Elliott, Terry Palerdy, Eric Nadworny, Eswar Eswarappa)		 Ironstone Farm stochastic: pertaining to chance or conjecture
2001 Doherty Middle School T.E.A.M. Doherty
(Elaine Elliott, Terry Palardy, Leslie Silverstein, Norma Villarreal)		 T.E.A.M. Doherty
(Elaine Elliott, Terry Palardy, Leslie Silverstein, Norma Villarreal)		  

entelechy: in Aristotelian philosophy, the actualization of potentiality or of true existence
2000 West Middle School Phillips Academy
(Kelly Flynn, John Gould, Sally Slade Warner, Andre Kostousov) 		T.E.A.M. Doherty   interstices: spaces between things or parts, crevices, cracks
1999 West Middle School DeWolfe Realtors
(Nancy Collins, E.J. Perdigao, Michael Rendish, Arlene Santangelo)      		Andover High School (Bee4Education AHS and Kelleher Cohen Associates Joan Cohen, Mary Kelleher, David Lussier, Bill Kolbe)  

pizzicato: a passage of music to be plucked with the fingers instead of bowed
1998 Doherty Middle School "Spellbound Librarians" (Leslie Baskin, Grace Bouvier, Nancy Richards, Ruth Rosenweig) T.E.A.M. Doherty (Elaine Elliot, Leslie Silverstein, Elizabeth Shanley, Norma Villarreal)   syzygy: the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies (as the sun, moon and earth during a solar or lunar eclipse)

last updated 5/12/08

 

 

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