5/26/16

13 year old Jake Montgomery, a seventh-grader from Pottsville Area School District, is already preparing for next year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee after being eliminated, Wednesday in National Harbor, Maryland. 

He was one of 285 students who were competing in event, which continues today. Montgomery went to the 2016 Scripps National Spelling Bee after he won the 61st annual Regional Spelling Bee in March in Schuylkill County.