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Andover Spelling Bee

an Andover Tradition since 1998            

Look for the 2009 Spelling Bee Regisration and Sponsor Forms in January, 2009
   

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Bee History since 1998 - Bottom of Page


last updated 5/12/08

Audience members cheer on their teams at the Andover Spelling Bee.  Not what you might imagine, the Bee has become a very lively community event, giving adults the chance to promote their school, business or organization while dressing up in crazy costumes, and students, parents and teachers the opportunity to display their school spirit. In the midst of it all, some very good spelling takes place to the delight and wonder of one and all. See the table below for past winning teams.
 

11th Annual Andover Spelling Bee 2008
Wood Hill Middle School

March 28 , 2008



2008 Champions
Bancroft Elementary School "Letterheads"

with Andover School Committee Member Dick Collins

 
Spirit Parade
Boosters
Kiwanis
ACE waits for the Librarians
Ironstone and AVIS take their places
High Plain team
Who is that state rep in the window?
Spirit Parade
Kiwanis team
Kiwanis Team member reveals his hidden talents
Memorial Hall Library Team
Mr. Bucco introduces the South School Tigers
AHS Principal Peter Anderson, MC, and pronouncer for the Championship Round
AFE President Jim McConaughy and School Committee Member Dick Collins congratulate the a member of the Sanborn School, winner of the Spirit Award
Boosters
Quotarians
The Band
Wood Hill Bucconeers
Pike Team
AFE President Jim McConaughy and School Committee Member Dick Collins congratulate the audience winners
Library Director Jim Sutton presents the official dictionary to the judges Wood Hill Principal Patrick Bucco, pronouncer for rounds 1 and 2
AHS Principal Peter Anderson, MC, and pronouncer for the Championship Round Sanborn Principal Patty Barrett, pronouncer for round 3
AFE Board members adjudicate

Rep. Barbara L'Italien, pronouncer for round 4


2008 TEAMS
A.V.I.S. "Treesaurus"
Doherty "The Dream Team"
A.C.E.
High Plain "Word Wizards"
Ironstone Farm "Word Slingers"
Kiwanis Club "Busy Bees"
League of Women Voters "The 'A' League "
Bancroft "Letterheads"
South "Tigers"
Andover Memorial Hall Library Team
Pike School  Team
Quota International Club "The Quotarians"
Sanborn "Doggone Good Spellers"
Shawsheen "Goes Green "
West El "Goodspellas"
Wood Hill "Bucconeers"

 

Andover Spelling Bee History

Year/Location Overall Champions School Champions Spirit Award Winning Word
2008 Wood Hill Middle School Bancroft Elementary School "Word Builders" Bancroft Elementary School "Word Builders" Sanborn Elementary School Ask Mr. Anderson
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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