Focus on Education: Merced County spelling bees

MERCED COUNTY -- Students are studying up for Merced County spelling bees.

About 80 fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders will compete a spell, starting at 9 a.m. Wednesday, at the Atwater Community Center, 760 E. Bellevue Road. Junior high students will spell out their best work at 9 a.m. Thursday at the Merced County Office of Education Clark-Newbold conference rooms, 632 W. 13th St., Merced.

Osvaldo DeLuna and John Magneson, MCOE coordinators for instructional services, will be word masters.

For more about the spelling bees, contact Valerie LeDuc at MCOE, (209) 381-5910.