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Jiya Shetty EMMALEE REED/MISSOURIAN I really want to make it, but I know that it s going to be hard because I know that is everyone s goal, Jiya said in an interview on Tuesday after the fourth round.Â
The Smithton Middle School eighth grader competed against 75 spellers in the quarterfinal rounds of the spelling bee Tuesday before misspelling a word in the sixth round. If she had spelled that word correctly, she would have competed again Sunday, June 27, in the semifinals of the spelling bee.Â
Jiya completed the first three rounds in the preliminaries Saturday. Tuesday s fourth round, Jiya s first round of the day, asked her to spell the word selenology, meaning a branch of astronomy that deals with the moon.Â
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Missourinet
Joskin. That was the word eighth grader Jiya Shetty of Columbia spelled correctly to land herself a spot in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
“I did not know how to spell the word,” she tells Missourinet. “So, I just had to figure it out. It’s a slang word and it’s from English. So, I knew it would be pretty straightforward and it wouldn’t have any crazy letters or like silent letters.”
Courtesy of Scripps National Spelling Bee
Shetty will be joined by more than 200 spellers from across the nation for this year’s competition, including seven other Missouri kids. The event begins virtually on Saturday.
COLUMBIA - To most local Columbia residents, they are invisible. The arrival of new refugees in mid-Missouri are often unheeded, and their stories unheard.
âA lot of our clients are fleeing war ⦠militia conflict, a lot of gender-based violence and sexual violence,â said Grace Wildenhaus of Catholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri, a nonprofit which receives some federal funding that also relies heavily on community support. âThereâs a lack of central control.â
Wildenhaus believes nothing is more important than getting the community involved with refugee services. As the only refugee resettlement agency in the region, it provides life-saving resources, both from donations and from federal assistance.