Achievements of home-schoolers.Home-schooled students continue to excel academically across the nation. * Samir Patel Samir Patel (born January 14, 1994) is an academic competitor, from Colleyville, Texas, who won the North South Foundation National Spelling Bee, and has placed 2nd, 3rd, 14th, 27th, and 34th in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. , a home-schooled seventh grader from Texas, will compete this May in his fourth Scripps National Spelling Bee spelling bee n. A contest in which competitors are eliminated as they fail to spell a given word correctly. Also called spelldown. Noun 1. , where last year he tied for 2nd place. In the national bee, one of Samir's competitors will be Anna Rose, who won the Montana Spelling Bee after 41 rounds and four and a half hours. Anna is home-schooled and is 13 years old. * Lillian Johnson, a 17-year-old home-schooler from Tennessee, scored a perfect 36 on the American College American College is the name of:
* Chris and Erin Long, home-schooled siblings in Virginia. will compete in May in the 57th Intel International Science & Engineering Fair. the largest pre-college science competition in the world. In March, Chris and Erin, 16 and 15 years old respectively, won grand awards at the Blue Ridge Blue Ridge, eastern range of the Appalachian Mts., extending south from S Pa. to N Ga.; highest mountains in the E United States. Mt. Mitchell, 6,684 ft (2,037 m) high, is the tallest peak. Beginning with a narrow ridge in the north, c. Regional Science Fair. In her project, Erin tested whether iodine would kill bacteria found in drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. (it did). Chris displayed a working prototype of a "sailing" vehicle that can operate on land. He designed and engineered the prototype. |
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