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Fourth grader Kiersten Fuller (above) listens for her next word during last Thursday’s New Kent Schools’ spelling bee. Kiersten correctly spelled “perfectionism” and “authoritative” to advance to the regional round in Richmond, thus ending a 21-round marathon, 15 of those rounds against fifth grader Benjamin Ward, the runner-up. Below, Kiersten receives her prizes, a certificate and a dictionary, from Ross Miller, schools’ instructional technology/testing/accountability director, who called the words. Judges were Nate Collins, DeDreama Harrod, and Katie Tanner.

Alan Chamberlain photos