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After beating out more than 50 elementary and middle-school rivals to become the youngest spelling bee champion in northeast Oklahoma history, 6-year-old Edith Fuller will become the youngest person ever to compete in the national competition this week.

Her family will travel to suburban Washington, D.C., for the Scripps National Spelling Bee starting Tuesday.

Representing the TBC Home Education Fellowship, Edith won the Scripps Green Country Regional Spelling Bee in March, when her final, victorious word was “jnana,” a term for “knowledge” in Indian philosophy.

“The 90th national spelling bee is making history before it even begins with this pint-sized ‘spellebrity,’” Scripps officials said. “We have no doubt she’ll spell like a champ.”

The national contest is open to contestants in the eighth grade or younger, and it does not have a minimum age.