It’s a moment of pride. Indian-American teenager Shrey Parikh won the 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee, correctly spelling 32 words in a spell-off to claim the championship and set a new competition record. The 14-year-old eighth-grader from San Bernardino, California, secured the title with the word “bromocriptine”, defined by organisers as “a polypeptide alkaloid that.
