An Appleton student is going to the 100th Scripps National Spelling Bee after winning first place at the Badger State Spelling Bee Saturday at the Mitby Theater in Madison, according to a news release from the Wisconsin State Journal.
Jacob Martonito, a sixth-grader at Appleton Classical School , won first place, while seventh-grader Ethan Robert from Eisenhower Middle School in New Berlin took second. Both students will advance to the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which takes place May 27-29 in the Washington, D.C. area.
“Wisconsin will be well-represented,” said Jane McMahon, state bee coordinator and director of The March Group…