Clarke Middle School sixth grader Zack Bergman poses holding his first place trophy with the runner-up of the Clarke County School District Spelling Bee in Mell Auditorium on Jan. 21. Bergman felt confident before the bee and predicted that the pair would be top two spellers. “I had been suspecting that Lydia would be the other finalist. And I was expecting I would win because, I mean, I’ve been studying a lot and no one else in the bee had the experience that I had,” Bergman said. “And I knew that for a fact because I would have remembered these people from the past two years if they were still in there.” Photo by Emma Scott
Clarke Central High School hosted the Clarke County School District Spelling Bee for fourth to sixth graders in the Mell Auditorium on Jan. 21.
