2025 Best Beekeeper
Jayden Jiang
How do you spell champion? Jayden Jiang sure knows. The fifth-grader at Girard Academic Music Program was declared the winner of Philly’s regional round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in March — for the second year in a row. (He tied for 41st in the national bee.) His favorite of the 4,000 words he made sure he knew for this regional round was juxtapose, he says — a fitting choice for the bearer of a two-time crown. Read More »