Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas to sponsor 2025 State Spelling Bee

LITTLE ROCK —The Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas are hosting the 2025 Arkansas State Spelling Bee on Saturday, March 8 at 10 a.m., at the Vines Center in Little Rock. The event is open to the public.
More than 85,000 student from 414 schools in 55 counties across Arkansas participated in local and county contests leading up to the State Spelling Bee.
This year, one winner from each participating county will advance and compete in the statewide spelling bee. The Arkansas winner will proceed to The Scripps National Spelling Bee, the nation’s largest and longest-running educational program.
Last year’s winner Ryan Fan, 11, of Fayetteville won the title of 2024 Arkansas State Spelling Bee Champion with the word, “predominant.”

The purpose of the Scripps National Spelling Bee is to help students improve their spelling, increase their vocabularies, learn concepts and develop correct English usage that will help them throughout their lives.
Learn more about the Arkansas State Spelling Bee at: www.aecc.com/spellingbee
The Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas comprise 17 electric distribution cooperatives; Arkansas Electric Cooperatives, Inc. (AECI), a Little Rock-based cooperative that provides services to the distribution cooperatives; and Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. (AECC), a generation and transmission cooperative. The distribution cooperatives provide electricity to approximately 1.2 million members, or customers, in Arkansas and surrounding states.