2023 Prizes and Awards Protest Rule

• Trip to the Scripps National Spelling Bee for the winner, one parent, and one teacher/coach.

• $500.00 Cash Prize

• First-Place Trophy

• Merriam-Webster Unabridged Online Certificate

• The Samuel Louis Sugarman Award

• Plaque with two winning words for school display

• Traveling Trophy for school display

• One-year subscription to the Britannica Online Premium

2nd Prize

• $250 Cash Prize

• Second Place Trophy

• Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (Eleventh Edition)

3rd Prize

• $150 Cash Prize

• Third-Place Trophy

4th Prize

• $100 Cash Prize

• Fourth-Place Trophy

• $50 Cash Prize

• Plaque

Artwork Winner

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Other Awards:

• All finalists finishing in places 5-18 will receive a certificate to be redeemed for a $50.00 cash prize compliments of Belmont Savings Bank.

• Bordas & Bordas is sponsoring the Fat Apple “Golden Ticket” awards for all finalists.

• All contestants will receive ribbons, certificates, & bee bobble heads.

• Amtrak travel is provided compliments of Uniglobe Travel.

• Ohio River Elks is sponsoring the bee bobble heads again this year.

• Shuttle service to Pittsburgh Amtrak station will be provided by Airport Limousine Service, Inc.

Official protest forms have been given to each contestant’s teacher/coach. Each contestant can have only one teacher/coach representing him/her. Any question relating to the spelling of a word should be referred to the protest official immediately in writing on the official protest form by the contestant’s teacher/coach. The teacher/ coach must be seated in the protest area, and he/she is the only representative of the contestant who is permitted to file a protest or be in this area. No protest will be entertained from the floor and/ or from any individual seeking to dislodge another speller from the competition. The deadline for filing a protest is before the contestant affected would have received his/ her next word had he/she stayed in the contest.

When only two spellers remain, an oral protest must be made immediately by the teacher/coach. The oral protest must be made before the speller in question has started to spell the word given to him/her. The teachers/ coaches may be seated at the protest table when there are only two spellers remaining in the contest.