Aliya Deri
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Aliya Deri, from Pleasanton, California
, was the champion of the 2008 National Vocabulary Championship
. She was also a runner up for the 78th Scripps National Spelling Bee
at the age of 13. She was featured in the book AMERICAN BEE: The National Spelling Bee and the Culture of Word Nerds, ISBN 1-59486-214-1.
Pleasanton, California
Pleasanton is a city in Alameda County, California, incorporated in 1894. It is a suburb in the San Francisco Bay Area located about east of Oakland, and west of Livermore. The population was 70,285 at the 2010 census. In 2005 and 2007, Pleasanton was ranked the wealthiest middle-sized city in...
, was the champion of the 2008 National Vocabulary Championship
National Vocabulary Championship
The National Vocabulary Championship was the first-ever U.S.-wide vocabulary competition for high school students created by GSN, in association with The Princeton Review. Thirty thousand high school students from across the United States participated in the inaugural year .The NVC aimed to...
. She was also a runner up for the 78th Scripps National Spelling Bee
78th Scripps National Spelling Bee
The 78th Scripps National Spelling Bee was held June 1–2, 2005 in Washington D.C. 272 students competed.Anurag Kashyap, 13, won the competition. He spelled the word appoggiatura, a musical term, correctly. 11-year-old Samir Patel of Colleyville, Texas and Aliya Deri, 13, of Pleasanton,...
at the age of 13. She was featured in the book AMERICAN BEE: The National Spelling Bee and the Culture of Word Nerds, ISBN 1-59486-214-1.