Mateo Rawls has won the Spanish spelling bee at Cole Elementary, finally clinching the win at the district level.
The audience gasped when the final word was announced at the Northside Independent School District 's Spanish Spelling Bee. ' Chihuahuense ' — a person from the northwestern Mexican state of Chihuahua . Mateo Rawls , a fifth grader at Cole Elementary School , had made it through five rounds of the elementary school competition. The 21 campus champs had been whittled down to two, sitting stage right in the Northside Activity Center .
The event has grown over the years to now include more than 50 campuses across all grade levels within NISD, said Julia Benavides, the contest's organizer and an elementary bilingual and ESL specialist. The students speak a mix of languages, not just Spanish and English. “I feel it’s a really big win in showing the importance of biliteracy and being bilingual,' Benavides said. Even though she had a hand in selecting the words for the competition, Benavides said a lot of them stumped her.
Northside Independent School District Cole Elementary School Westwood Terrace Elementary School Region 20 Spanish Mateo Rawls Alfonso Garcia Gonzalez Julia Benavides Correcto Spanish Chihuahua Mexican Cole Elementary Northside Activity Center San Antonio Bexar County Chihuahuense English Latin AM Project Dual Language
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