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Spelling bee participants are pictured in order, left to right and down: Riley Linde, Paulding County; Alicia Viera, Bremen City; Cindy Zhou, Forsyth County; Gracie Dong, Cobb County; Long Nguyen, Gwinnett County; Cayden Mader, Gwinnett County; Sanjeda Jamal, DeKalb County; Christian Wilson, DeKalb County; Ananya Augustine, Henry County; Sanieya Largent, Clayton County; AiKevia Rutland, Crawford County; Jaylen Jessie, Houston County; Saisurya Lakkimsetti, Columbia County; Kellsey Ortega, Putnam County; Nevaeh Lovett, Bryan County; Kara Nuque, Glynn County; Gurpreet Kaur, Decatur County; Lilian McCray, Brooks County; Troy Nguyen, The Wesleyan School; Rex Nassah, Marist School.

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ATLANTA — A Henry County middle school student is among 20 championship finalists who will compete later this month in the Georgia Association of Educators’ State Spelling Bee.

Normally this time of year, it’s announced that students will soon be spelling words like “devitrification,” “jotnian,” and “reascendancy.” This year students, including Ananya Augustine, a seventh-grader from Eagle’s Landing Middle School, will be competing through computer clicks. Augustine was last year’s state runner-up.

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