Ben Standaert wins District Spelling Bee

Highlands Day student Ben Standaert spelled the winning word, doctrinaire, at the Mountain Brook District Spelling Bee on Jan. 8. Winners from each of the local elementary schools, Mountain Brook Junior High and Highlands Day competed for the district award.

Ben will go on to compete in the Jefferson County Spelling Bee.

Other contestants were Kennedy Stewart, Mountain Brook Elementary; Laurel Hand, Crestline Elementary; Ethan Gonzalez, Mountain Brook Junior High; Catie Pitard, Brookwood Forest Elementary; and Ethan Shunnarah, Cherokee Bend Elementary.