(Washington D.C.) - A La Porte school student will be returning home soon from Washington D.C. after participating in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Nolan Route is an 8th grader at St. John’s Lutheran School whom his father, Mark, said made it past the first round during the preliminaries Tuesday when he correctly spelled “Antigua.” He was ultimately eliminated in the second, vocabulary/definition round when he did not pick the proper definition for “Bromide.”
“All of the contestants were treated like royalty for the week,” Mr. Roule said.
Roule, an attorney, is the son of Art Roule, Jr., who used to be city attorney for the City of La Porte.
