Champion

Maryland Heights, Missouri

George Abraham Thampy, age 12, sponsored by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, won the $10,000 prize by correctly spelling the word “demarche.”

George became the head of corporate strategy and investor relations at Kyverna Therapeutics in 2023. Before that, he was the senior director of business operations at CareDx, Inc. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.