He's the first 6-year-old first-grader to ever grace the stage. — -- Akash Vukoti of San Angelo, Texas, may be the youngest contestant -- and the first first-grader -- ever to reach the Scripps ...
He beat out 57 students by spelling the word "deoxygenate" correctly. "It was a great feeling," he said. "I was really happy and ecstatic." Akash, who is an eighth-grader at Hanes Middle School, will ...