<p>Hey! I'm curious if anyone here knows of a spelling competition for high school students - either state or nation-wide? I love words and spelling comes naturally to me. I think that it'd be fun, but was disappointed to learn that the Scripps National Spelling Bee isn't open to high schoolers :/ Are spelling bees considered juvenile?</p>
<p>Spelling bees are considered juvenile. Once you get to HS, it’s all about the essays and sciences.</p>
<p>Yes, for some reason, spelling bees are not popular in high school.</p>
<p>Darn… Do you know of anything else competitive-wise that has to do with words/spelling? I’m not a math/science person, except for my environmental activism… but I’d really like to do something with words :]</p>
<p>Essay contests. Writing. There are buttloads of them in the country.</p>
<p>There are vocabulary competitions, I believe.</p>
<p>Oh, I know, but that’s different from what I’m talking about. I already do writing competitions. I’m talking about spelling/words, lol</p>
<p>Oh really? Hm…I’ll look it up</p>
<p>Thanks silverturtle, but the National Vocabulary Championship was only held once, in 2008. 
Does anyone have other ideas?</p>
<p>Bumpp 10char</p>
<p>Spelling bees don’t happen in highschool because by then there would be a lot of kids that never get a word wrong.</p>