April 2, 2024–The top two spelling champions from each of CSISD’s 10 elementary campuses participated in the second annual CSISD Elementary Spelling Bee held on March 20 at Pecan Trail Intermediate School. Spellers competed for 17 rounds, with the championship word, regulatory, coming from a non-studied wordlist.
Pebble Creek Elementary School third-grader Samik Mittal won the bee and Rock Prairie Elementary School fourth-grader Sharon Chang was the runner-up. Mittal and Chang battled for five rounds before Mittal was named champion.
The following elementary school students were named campus champions for their school and participated in the districtwide spelling bee:
District Champion
Samik Mittal, Pebble Creek Elementary
Runner-Up
Sharon Chang, Rock Prairie Elementary
Campus Champions
College Hills Elementary: Shivani Shanmugam and Owen Skow
Creek View Elementary: Jack Hsieh and Jalayah Collins
Forest Ridge Elementary: Ethan Zurcher and Hattie Mosley
Greens Prairie Elementary: Aditi Balasubramanian and Anishka Gunasekara
Pebble Creek Elementary: Samik Mittal and Anthony Yu
River Bend Elementary: James Hogan and Alex Fletcher
Rock Prairie Elementary: Sharon Chang and Junyoung Choi
South Knoll Elementary: Adeline Eschberger and Ella Suchodolski
Southwood Valley Elementary: Keteope Awelewa and Lucas Alvarez
Spring Creek Elementary: Nathan Jin and Shreya Saripalli