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Previous Brain Bee Winners
2004-2005 NSF Brain Bee Champion
Ashley Thakur :
At age 7, Ashley became the youngest National Spelling
Bee champion of NSF. Further she also became the youngest Brain Bee champion
at the NSF Finals during 2004. She is a precocious 12 year old who recently
played as Concert Mistress with the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra at the
Lincoln Center in Manhattan. Ashley has received countless applause for her
achievements in the violin study. In addition, she plays the piano and has
done ballet for the past 9 years. She also teaches martial arts to younger
students. In concern to sports, she is a competitive athlete in swimming
and lacrosse. She hopes to attend Julliard in the fall and eventually attend
Harvard University. Ashley's dream is to become an obstetrician or a
gynecologist. When asked why she wants to become an obstetrician, she
innocently replies "My mother gets gifts everyday". Even though she's
applying to Julliard at age 12, she's quite the child at heart.
2003-2004 NSF Brain Bee Champion
Bhakti Nagall, a 10th grade student at the Math and Science Academy of Hartford, Connecticut won this year's North South Foundation Brain Bee Championship. Bhakti is a straight ?A' student and had the honor of being one of the two children selected into the magnet school from Farmington Township. She is also the Editor of her school year book. As a freshman she made it to her school tennis team. She enjoys playing piano and working as a volunteer at the local Red Cross and at the University of Connecticut Medical Center.
2004-2005
- 1st Place Ashley Thakur -- claimed 4th at International Brain Bee
- 2nd Place Liny John
- 3rd Place Apeksha Dave
2003-2004
- 1st Place Bhakti Nagalla, Unionville, CT -- claimed 1st at International Brain Bee
- 2nd Place Vikas Mouli, Owings Mill, MD
- 3rd Place Niyatee Samudra, Plano, TX
2002-2003
- 1st Place Tabby Khan, Atlanta, GA
- 2nd Place Sweth Suresh, Westlake, OH
- 3rd Place Niyatee Samudra, Plano, TX
2001-2002
- 1st Place(tie) (Vik) Paruchuri, Potomac, MD
- 1st Place(tie) Shakti Nayar, Bethesda, MD
2000-2001
- 1st Place(tie)Arjun Barioke, (NJ Center)-- won the International Brain Bee Championship
- 1st Place(tie)Nikhil Rao , (TX Center) -- claimed 3rd place in the Intl. Brain Bee Finals
- 1st Place(tie)Adnan Zubair , (MD Center) -- claimed 5th place in the Intl. Brain Bee Finals
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