Pembina County, ND - State Spelling Bee

**Notice Regarding 2020-2021 Program and 2021 State Spelling Bee**                                             

The North Dakota Association of County Superintendents (NDACS) has made the decision to put the State Spelling Bee program on hiatus for one year due to many uncertainties. The CDC and State of North Dakota guidelines for large group gatherings have been reviewed. The State Spelling Bee event flow, process and venue all provide challenges in delivering the program in its traditional fashion while ensuring the safety of the 100+ students and all Event attendees and volunteers (generally 350+). NDACS will take this “year off” to consider ideas for potential changes to the program and State Event.                                                                                        

Scripps Enrollment – Please Review Before Enrolling for fall 2020 (Scripps Email Campaign Begins Soon):

• NDACS is NOT sponsoring a State Bee for 2021 – Scripps enrollment and fees will not provide your students the opportunity to advance through the program (school / county / state / National) for the 2020-2021 program year.                                                

SPELLING and language skills are very important life skills! NDACS encourages you to incorporate spelling into other curriculum. And – you can still have classroom and school Spelling Bees and find ways to celebrate student “orthography” achievements!

State Spelling Bee

The North Dakota State Spelling Bee program is funded primarily by Sponsor grants. The program is managed and administered by the North Dakota Association of County Superintendents (NDACS).

The program consists of three levels of competition – School, County, and State. The program is open to students from public schools, private schools, and homeschools (or school district based homeschool associations).

Public, private, and homeschools all need to enroll both with NDACS for State and Scripps for National in order to have their students eligible to advance from the County Bee level of competition to the State Spelling Bee