School District Spelling Bee Winners

Pictured left to right, Back row: Mrs. Charla Caudill, District Spelling Bee Coordinator,Katie Smith from Kyrock Elementary (4th grade), Sarah Stewart, District Runner-up (7th grade) and District Spelling Bee Champion Elijah Pedigo (8th grade) from Edmonson County Middle School, and Mr. Patrick Waddell, Superintendent. Front Row: Evan Gallagher from South Edmonson (4th grade), Meredith Hennion (6th grade) and Jonas Miller (5th grade) from the Edmonson 5th and 6th Center. Photo courtesy of ECMS

On Thursday evening, January 14, six different Edmonson County students and their families gathered at the ECHS Auditorium for the Annual District Spelling Bee.

Sponsored by the Edmonson County Farm Bureau Women’s Committee and the Edmonson County
Board of Education, the event brought together six finalists from grades 4 through 8, who represented each of the schools in the district.

The participants included: Katie Smith from Kyrock Elementary (4th grade), Evan Gallagher from South Edmonson (4th grade), Jonas Miller (5th grade) and Meredith Hennion (6th grade) from the Edmonson 5th and 6th Center, and Sarah Stewart (7th grade) and Elijah Pedio (8th grade) from Edmonson County Middle School.

Elijah Pedigo, named overall champion, received a cash prize of $50 and will now represent the district in the 2016 Ford Motor Company Kentucky Derby Festival Spelling Bee in Louisville, KY. Runner up Sarah Stewart, received a cash prize of $25 and is the second choice for the Louisville Festival in the event that Pedigo should be unable to attend. 

Pedigo will compete at the 2016 Ford Motor Company Kentucky Derby Festival Spelling Bee on Saturday, March 5, 2016 at the Kentucky Center for the Arts in Louisville, KY for the title of State Champion and a
winning prize of $10,000.