[Arrowhead1952]

Home-school ping

[politicket]

Great news!

We have a homeschooled boy from Colorado that just won the state bee by besting 262 other students and will be going to nationals. He had only been studying since the beginning of February!

[MotleyGirl70]

Excellent!

For the New Haven spelling bee, Marcucci, who is ranked 27th in the nation, studied a 400,000-word dictionary for about an hour-and-a-half per night.

That's impressive. He sure doesn't lack dedication.

But Marcucci isn't sitting home twiddling his thumbs. "I'm involved with boy scouts ... and go kayaking with them," he said. "I play Chess and then there's baseball in the summer."

Nicholas sounds well-grounded and like an all around nice kid.

Best of luck to him.

[politicket]

Here's the article on the Colorado boy, from the Rocky Mountain News.