Twelve years after competing in his first spelling competition in Virginia at just 2 years old, and just days after his 14th birthday, Akash Vukoti competed in the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – Most six year olds are learning how to spell words like “bike” or “feet.” Akash Vukoti successfully spelled “circumspectly” at his local spelling bee in Texas to become the ...

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Akash Vukoti no longer stands out at the Scripps National Spelling Bee for his age, not with a record 23 spellers competing this year who are 9 or younger. But he’s the only ...

Akash Vukoti was 2 years old when he entered his first spelling competition, in Ashburn, Va., in 2012. “He was very much into the alphabet and numbers, and had a very photographic memory,” his father, ...

SAN ANGELO — A Netflix original documentary is now available featuring San Angelo's most famous speller. Akash Vukoti, who in 2016 became the youngest boy in history to qualify for the Scripps ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. - The crowd at the Scripps National Spelling Bee Wednesday afternoon thought 6-year-old Akash Vukoti nailed his spelling of "bacteriolytic," but he received the dreaded ding ...

(NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.) — Akash Vukoti of San Angelo, Texas, may be the youngest contestant -- and the first first-grader -- ever to reach the Scripps National Spelling Bee, but he was in it to win it.

SAN ANGELO, Texas—Contestants at the 2016 Scripps National Spelling Bee will move to the onstage portion of preliminaries Wednesday after completing a written test of spelling and vocabulary questions ...