Kansas 13-year-old Kavya Shivashankar won the National Spelling Bee with a strong confident presence at the mic. But there was a big sigh from the audience when another 13-year-old, Kennyi Aouad of Indiana, went out in the final minutes. Aouad's jovial manner makes him easy to like. He finished fifth, dropping out on the word Palatschinken, a kind of pancake. Kennyi talks about the experience.

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