Akash Vukoti first competed in the competition at 6 years old, back in 2016. Twelve years after competing in his first spelling competition in Virginia at just 2 years old, and just days after his ...

(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.

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, 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 ...

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 ...

He's the first 6-year-old first-grader to ever grace the stage. — -- Akash Vukoti of San Angelo, Texas, may be the youngest contestant -- and the first first-grader -- ever to reach the Scripps ...