Bruhat Soma is the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee Champion
Bruhat, a 12-year-old speller from St. Petersburg, Florida, representing the Rays Baseball Foundation and Rowdies Soccer Fund, competed in the second-ever Spell-off to win the Bee. His winning word is "abseil," meaning "a descent in mountaineering by means of a rope looped over a projection above."
Meet the Finalists
about the bee
Since 1925, children across America have participated in classroom, school and regional spelling bees with the hope of making it to the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
get ready for bee week!
Bee Week 2024 will take place at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. On May 26, 245 spellers from across the country and around the world will arrive in the Washington, D.C., area. For these spellers, Bee Week will include much more than three days of nationally-televised competition.