2010

The 83rd Scripps National Spelling Bee took place on June 4th, 2010. It was held at the Grand Hyatt Washington, and 273 spellers participated.

This was the shortest National Competition in history, with only nine rounds of spelling.

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About the 83rd Bee

Champion

Anamika Veeramani

North Royalton, Ohio

Anamika Veeramani, age 13, sponsored by The Plain Dealer, won the $30,000 prize by correctly spelling the word “stromuhr.”

Anamika is a plastic and reconstructive surgery resident physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She graduated from Yale with a bachelor’s degree as well as Harvard Medical School.

Location

Grand Hyatt Washington

at the Independence Ballroom

Winning Word

stromuhr(n)

STROH-muer

an instrument for measuring the flow of viscous substances designed to measure the amount and speed of blood flow through an artery.

This word is from a German element plus an element that went from French to German.

OFFICIALS

Directors

Paige P. Kimble

Judges

  • Mary Brooks
  • Blake Giddens
  • Dr. Ed Low
  • Dr. Michelle M. Mehta

Pronouncers

  • Dr. Jacques Bailly
  • Dr. Brian Sietsema

SPELLER ROSTER

  • Mehgan Abdel-Moneim
  • Connor Aberlé
  • Mariamma Abraham
  • Seth Acup
  • Elozino Ahworegba
  • Sruti Akula
  • Mikhail Alcantara
  • Nina Alcasid
  • Savannah Aldridge
  • Sarah Allen
  • Hannah Allison
  • Kevin Ammann
  • Brian Andersen
  • Dalton Andring
  • Shivani Angappan
  • Fernanda Arnay
  • Tommy Arnold
  • Mashad Arora
  • Katie Arthur
  • Ellen Asermely
  • Roshini Asirvatham
  • Ankush Bajaj
  • Taylor Ballek
  • Surjo Bandyopadhyay
  • Thomas Bates
  • Christopher Bayston
  • Eli Beck
  • Alyssa Binosa
  • Allison Black
  • Gabriel Blacklock
  • Rachel Blakemore
  • Jaclin Boorse
  • Amber Born
  • Jace Brandl
  • Emily Brannon
  • Chase Brown
  • Matt Brucker
  • Kendra Burns
  • Sean Calhoun
  • Julianna Canabal-Rodríguez
  • Clancy Carter
  • Joshua Casquejo
  • Modhura Chakravarty
  • Neetu Chandak
  • Aditya Chemudupaty
  • Laura Churchill
  • McKenna Clippert
  • Avery Coffey
  • Emmarie Comaad
  • Christopher Combee
  • Jessia Connelly
  • Jeremiah Cortez
  • Duncan Crooks
  • Rachael Cundey
  • Aldrin D’Silva
  • Alisha David-Lukas
  • Adam Davies
  • Melinda Davis
  • Mark de los Santos
  • Daniel Deneweth
  • Julia Denniss
  • Thomas Dumbach
  • Casey Durant
  • John Eaton
  • Samuel Estep
  • Hannah Evans
  • Kenley Farace
  • AJ Feiock
  • Brian Fields
  • Emma Finch
  • Kimber Fleming
  • James Forcier
  • Tommy Foster
  • Walter Francis
  • Vincent Franco
  • Jared Franz
  • Natasha Freund
  • Sarah Gadre
  • Ross Garrity
  • Noah Gershenson
  • Bradford Geter
  • Ramesh Ghanta
  • Jacob Gilliam
  • R. Gomoll
  • Vaidya Govindarajan
  • Chloe Granger
  • Briuana Green
  • Suzanne Greenwood
  • Gage Grishaw
  • Andrew Grose
  • Adrian Gunawan
  • David Habibi
  • Elliot Hanna
  • Kirk Hansen
  • Kela Harrington
  • J. Hartwick
  • Ashlee Hauble
  • Madelynn Hauglie
  • Jordan Hoffman
  • Deborah Horton
  • Vincent Huang
  • Clark Hubbard
  • Miranda Hulsey
  • Ameena Iqbal
  • Shayne Jacobs
  • Olivia Jacobs
  • Rani Jaiswal
  • Bianca James
  • Felicity Jenkins
  • Henry Jin
  • Emma Johanningsmeier
  • Summer Johnston
  • Olivia Jones
  • Dakota Jones
  • Lily Jordan
  • George Jose
  • Antony Joseph
  • Alex Kahng
  • Gina Kapadia
  • Matthew Karas
  • Paul Kardar
  • Sabin Karki
  • Emily Keaton
  • Connor Keith
  • Nabaa Khan
  • Leena Khan
  • Hyunsoo Kim
  • Brian King
  • Joseph Kirkpatrick
  • Devora Klionsky
  • Szofia Komaromy-Hiller
  • Anne-Marie Kommers
  • Dharani Kotekal
  • Ashley LaMere
  • Mitchell Lange
  • Karen Laska
  • Braden LaTour
  • Kyle Latshaw
  • Mael Le Scouezec
  • Joanne Lee
  • Lillian Lesser
  • Sunny Levine
  • Wesley Lima
  • Lucas Liner
  • Gina Liu
  • Olivia Long
  • Vothom Lu
  • Matthew Luczaj
  • Arvind Mahankali
  • Juan Miguel Malana
  • Rahul Malayappan
  • Pranay Malempati
  • Nathan Marcisz
  • Isabella Mayo
  • Rachel McFall
  • Monica Mede
  • Glenn Medina
  • Neel Mehta
  • Julia Miglets
  • Erin Mills
  • Michaela Minock
  • Andrea Mirasol
  • Prakash Mishra
  • Anvita Mishra
  • Quentin Moyer
  • Jake Muldowney
  • Paige Myroth
  • Anjali Nair
  • Jonathan Nativi
  • Pauline Negrete
  • Laura Newcombe
  • Rory O’Donoghue
  • Zachary Ocab
  • Ryan Oppenheim
  • Sam Osheroff
  • Robert Palmisano
  • Aditya Pande
  • Esther Park
  • Brysen Pasion
  • Tanay Patri
  • Michael Pence
  • Stefan Peng
  • Isabella Penola
  • Yelena Persaud
  • Margaret Peterson
  • David Phan
  • Hannah Pinson
  • Jessica Pittman
  • Elizabeth Platz
  • Michele Poindexter
  • Christo Popham
  • Kavyapranati Pratapa
  • Oliver Price
  • Courtland Priest
  • Kirsten Prout
  • Zaib Qayyum
  • Jacky Qiao
  • Reha Rabbani
  • Anjithaa Radakrishnan
  • Akshay Raghuram
  • Nabeel Rahman
  • Shilpa Rao
  • Varun Ravichandran
  • Chetan Reddy
  • Karthik Reddy
  • Grace Remmer
  • Benjamin Rice
  • Mary-Michael Robertson
  • Owayne Rodney
  • Jedadiah Rothstein
  • Sukanya Roy
  • Tim Ruiter
  • Faith Ruppert
  • Christopher Rupprecht
  • Nicholas Rushlow
  • Darren Sackey
  • Samantha Safa
  • Scott Salisbury
  • Sonia Schlesinger
  • Katherine Schumacher
  • Jan Izzabelle Secular
  • Jason Seguin
  • Mickey Shi
  • Vanya Shivashankar
  • Jenna Sink
  • Nick Smallwood
  • Sabrina Smith
  • Caitlin Smith
  • Jorge Solís
  • Gina Solomito
  • Abigail Spitzer
  • Shantanu Srivatsa
  • Liz Stickley
  • Destiny Su’a
  • Christian Suarez
  • Isabel Sublette
  • Monica Sullivan
  • Anja Beth Swoap
  • Alyssa Szczypien
  • Lanson Tang
  • Andrew Taylor
  • Priyanka Thirumurti
  • Dylan Thomas
  • Carmi Thomas
  • Allison Thomas
  • Robert Thomas Jr.
  • Taryn Thor
  • Baylor Towne
  • Rose Tracy
  • Dang-Quang Tran
  • Grace Tsui
  • Liam Twight
  • Jared Urbina
  • Siddharth Varanasi
  • Anamika Veeramani
  • Neilesh Vinjamuri
  • Jacob Voegele
  • Deep Vudathu
  • Anna Wadhwani
  • Nathan Wakefield
  • Matthew Wegner
  • Andrew Wellen
  • Ian Wendt
  • Amelia Wentzel
  • Brandon Whitehead
  • Christian Wilks
  • Tom Winter
  • Austin Wolfgram
  • Kyle Wolford
  • Joanna Ye
  • Hye-Jean Yoon
  • Alexia Zawadzke
  • Matthew Zisi

* Winner
** Runner-Up