5/28/2015 – Derby Festival Spelling Bee Champ Heads to National Finals

Follow our Ford Motor Company Kentucky Derby Festival Spelling Bee champ, Paul Keaton, on his way to grab the Scripps National Spelling Bee  title! The competition is this week in National Harbor, Maryland.  Almost 300 students from around the country compete.  Preliminaries were held Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.  Semifinals were held this morning.  After this morning’s semifinals, Paul made it to the Top 10 Finalists.  You can watch him in the Finals tonight LIVE on ESPN at 8PM EST.

You can find the complete line-up of tonight’s finalists here: https://spellingbee.com/public/results/2015/finishers/html?type=champ

Paul Keaton KDF Spelling Bee Winner

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