America's newest spelling champion wants to help underprivileged children share the same passion for the dictionary
At 14, she won the Spelling Bee, the most prestigious spelling bee in the United States. A victory for which she received 50,000 dollars, which she intends to invest in her studies and in support for precarious young people. His impressive performance puts the pressure on anyone who thinks they've mastered spelling. Harini Logan, 14, has just won the annual national Spelling Bee competition in the United States, after a historic final in which she managed to spell 21 words correctly in 90 seconds, against 15 for her opponent. It was a question of spelling words like "moorhen", the name of a bird, or "phreatophyte", a plant evolving in wet ground. Rare words but found in the dictionary, you still have to learn them by heart, which Harini Logan has been doing since she was very young, in her town of San Antonio in Texas: learning the words, but also their definition, the meaning they carry. It was first a hobby, a joyful passion and then it became an obsession, th...