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Culver City Spelling Bee Champ Advances to State Competition
El Marino fifth grader Cooper Komatsu finished second in the LA County competition. He'll now head to Stockton, CA on April 20.
CCUSD Spelling Bee champion Cooper Komatsu (see our previous story on Cooper here), finished second in this week's Los Angeles County Elementary Spelling Bee and will now head to the state finals in Stockton on April 20.
Cooper, a fifth-grader at El Marino Language School, finished second behind Yeri Kim of Glendale Unified School District, while Kearne Permalino from ABC Unified School District finished third.
The county competition included the top spellers from 24 Los Angeles County school districts, and the three top finishers received trophies and savings bonds.
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Yeri, a sixth-grader from Valley View Elementary School in La Crescenta, won the competition, which lasted 19 rounds and nearly 90 minutes, by correctly spelling "perforate" and "pendiculation."
The April 20 state final will take place at the San Joaquin County Office of Education in Stockton.
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