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The Andover Spelling Bee: 

A Community Tradition since 1998

Mark your calendars! The 15th Annual Spelling Bee will be held on Friday, March 30, 2012 at Wood Hill Middle School.  Please join us for a fun-filled evening in support of AFE's grant program. . .

Register a Team of Four Adults! Teams work together to spell words, so there is NO SOLO SPELLING.  Each team pays a tax-deductible entry fee of $200.    

Or Participate as a Bee Sponsor, Supporter, or Friend!  Become a Sponsor of the Bee ($250); your organization will be featured on a slide between rounds of the Bee and acknowledged in the program.  Become a Supporter of the Bee ($50); your business card will be printed in the program.  Become a Friend of the Bee ($25); your name will appear in the program.        

CLICK HERE to Sign Up NOW!

 


 

List of Bee Winners since 1998

2010 Bee Photos

2009 Bee Photos

2008 Bee Photos  

2007 Bee Photos

2006 Bee Photos

 

14th Annual Andover Spelling Bee
West Middle School

April 8, 2011

2011 Champions
Andover High School "Word Warriors"

From left to right: Laurie Francis-Wright, Jen Percival, John Kosartes, and Scott Aubrey


West Elementary School won the 2011 Spirit Award, which is given to the school supported by the most enthusiastic fans.

The 2011 Best Team Costume was awarded to Bancroft Elementary School's "Hippie Chicks."

Other 2011 Teams
  

Memorial Hall Library "MHL Spellers"

Andover Rotary "Buddha Buccaneer Bees"
  
Doherty Middle School "Dictionaries"
Wood Hill Middle School "Spelltinis"
  
West Elementary "Wordinators"
Sanborn Elementary "Dog-Gone Good Spellers"
  
A.V.I.S. "Treesaurus"
Shawsheen School "Space Cadets"
  
Andover Rotary "Goldmarks"
Bancroft Elementary "Hippie Chicks"
  
West Elementary "West Spellementary"
High Plain Elementary "High Plain Drifters"
  
West Middle School "Spellraisers"
ACE "Faces of ACE"
  
South Elementary School "Dragon Spellers"
Prudential "The PHDs"
 

 

Andover Spelling Bee History

Year/Location Overall Champions School Champions Spirit Award Winning Word
2011/West Middle School Andover High School "Word Warriors" Andover High School "Word Warriors" West Elementary School hebetate:  to make dull
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 ophthalmologist: 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)

 

 

 

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