Friday, May 24, 2013
Alia Abiad, of Western Springs, will compete among 281 other middle-schoolers next week at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, DC.
Western Springs’ favorite speller got a send off fit for a champion Thursday in Oak Brook. Cook County Spelling Bee victor Alia Abiad, 13, leaves for Washington, DC, Saturday morning to compete in the 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee. ComEd hosted the event for the McClure seventh-grader, as well as Will County champ Meghana Kamineni and DuPage County winner Richard Moraga. “It’s just been a really wonderful experience,” Alia’s mom, Lorraine Abiad, said. “We’re just soaking it all up.” This year’s bee features a new twist. Round one will include a multiple choice vocabulary test on Tuesday during which participants must define words from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Points from that test will be added to the points they earn during …
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Local kid-hero Alia Abiad wrote a poem incorporating all the words she spelled correctly during her victory at the Suburban Cook County Spelling Bee.
Those who know Alia Abiad are already well aware that she’s brilliant with words—the McClure seventh-grader qualified last month for the Scripps National Spelling Bee. But now we’ve discovered that Alia is a poet, as well. The Western Springs student wrote a poem using all the words she spelled correctly during her qualifying run in the Suburban Cook County Spelling Bee. She sent it to Scripps as a thank you for hosting her in the national competition, which takes place Memorial Day weekend. Guys, this poem is good. Really good. Read it in its entirety below and think back to what you were doing in seventh grade. By Alia Abiad we are facing off at the start of the war lights are dimming, theater doors closing phones flickering flickering …
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Representing the home team on McClure’s stage, Western Springs seventh-grader Alia Abiad became District 101’s first-ever Cook County champion.
Friday, February 22, 2013
Representing the home team on McClure’s stage, Western Springs seventh-grader Alia Abiad became District 101’s first-ever Cook County champion.
F-R-U-I-T-I-O-N, and with that twelfth-consecutive correctly spelled word, Western Springs seventh-grader Alia Abiad’s hard work and study came to fruition on Thursday night as she won the Regional ISC Cook County Spelling Bee Final, securing her place in the Scripps National Bee in Washington D.C. in May. Facing down nine other hardy contenders from throughout the county—an insanely young field with three fifth-graders and no eighth-graders—Abiad breezed through balcony, finale, threshold, recalcitrant, Qatari, prabhu, tamarind, broach, garlicky, spectacular and median before fruition finally secured her the win. “At first, I wasn’t sure if it was my last word or not!” Abiad said. “[Then] I was really excited, so I was trying to calm down…
TGCohen
10:48 am on Friday, March 29, 2013
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