Hello, I am Akshita Balaji. I’m 17 years old and I’m a senior at Westfield High School. I’ve had a passion for spelling and a deep love for language since I was a kid, and I’ve been competing in bees for as long as I can remember. I won my class spelling bee for the very first time in third grade, and competed in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2019, my sixth-grade year. After that, I was inclined to win my county spelling bee again in 7th grade, but unfortunately, it was canceled due to Covid-19.
