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This Word Stumped Fairfax County Teen Landing Her 2nd Place In National Spelling Bee This Word Stumped Fairfax County Teen Landing Her 2nd Place In National Spelling Bee
This Word Stumped Fairfax County Teen Landing Her 2nd Place In National Spelling Bee A 14-year-old Fairfax County girl took home $250,000 and second place in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Charlotte Walsh — a black belt in Tae Kwon Do from Merrifield — last year tied for 32nd and in 2019 tied for 51st. The word that stumped her this year? Daviely: A Scottish-rooted word meaning listlessly. This year's winner is 14-year-old Dev Shah, who correctly spelled "psammophile." According to her bio on the Scripps website, Charlotte is homeschooled and wants to pursue astrophysics or neuroscience when she is older. 

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Science Scholarship Created In Honor Of Late PhD Student From VA Beach Science Scholarship Created In Honor Of Late PhD Student From VA Beach
Science Scholarship Created In Honor Of Late PhD Student From VA Beach Corey Sargent was set to become the first Old Dominion University student to receive a PhD in astrophysics. On June 11, the 25-year-old's life was cut short in Newport News, when a reckless driver killed him in a rear end collision, according to a GoFundMe page started in his honor. The Virginia Beach native had already received bachelor's and master's degrees in physics from ODU, but was still not satisfied.  "Everything was a competition: baseball, kayaking, hiking, even school where he won nearly every award possible from the ODU Physics Department." A friend of Sargent's family recal…

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by AJ Goldbloom