"Early sixth and seventh grade, I started feeling weird and odd. I was called a nerd," Zaila Avant-garde said. "I overcame that by realizing that everybody brings something to the ...
Eighteen kids from two neighborhood schools followed the Scripps Howard Spelling Bee rules to duke it out. "Thinking about stock, like, s-t-o-c-k, and then I tapped it out," Kaliah said. "I thought I ...